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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.
Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.
A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.
I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
Refuse to give up, your mistakes don't define you. They don't dictate where you're headed, they remind you.
Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.
The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.
All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
I refuse to let anybody try to typecast me. It's against my nature. I like to continually do different things.
But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.
Don't just grab at the first thing that comes along. Know when to refuse something that won't get you anywhere
I refuse to allow the excuses in my mind to grow into giants that keep me from living up to my full potential.
A woman indeed can't properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered.
Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.
In 35 yrs of leading I've been afraid at every major step but I DID IT ANYWAY since I REFUSE let fear run my life.
Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.
What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?
I'm a survivor, man. I done had my ups and downs, but I've got get-back skills for real for real. I refuse to fall.
Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.
You listen to 'One Love,' you have to rock your head. You have to do something. It moves you. You cannot refuse it.
I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.
Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.
I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.
I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.
I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.
I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.
Southern Baptist Convention's EC president Frank Page tells me: "If I'm told I have to marry same sex couples I will refuse."
If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.
Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.
Forget: Refuse to dwell; let go and loosen one's hold, particularly on memory. To forget is an active - not passive - endeavor.
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.
You can't refuse to move forward when you're educating in design, because that's what we're asking students to do the whole time.
I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.
What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.
It's not polite to refuse to dress for a parly. It's an insult to your hostess. After all, correct dress is a part of good manners.
All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself.