Quotes about Refuses

In lang, lang days o' simmer, When the clear and cloudless sky Refuses ae weep drap o' rain To Nature parched and dry, The genial night, wi' balmy breath, Gars verdue, spring anew, An' ilka blade o' grass Keps its ain drap o' dew. Votes: 3

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction. Votes: 1

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. Votes: 1

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. Votes: 1

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim. Votes: 1

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. Votes: 1

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. Votes: 1

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. Votes: 1

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed. Votes: 1

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. Votes: 1

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. Votes: 1

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage. Votes: 1

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance. Votes: 1

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me. Votes: 1

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation. Votes: 1

If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus. Votes: 1

That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle. Votes: 1

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. Votes: 1

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it. Votes: 1

Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional. Votes: 1

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. Votes: 1

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all. Votes: 1

Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy. Votes: 1

The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine. Votes: 1

There is a scene in Richard Attenborough's biopic where Gandhi argues with his wife because she refuses to clean their latrine. She says it is the work of untouchables; he tells her there is no such thing. Gandhi's tactics of encouraging brotherly love across caste boundaries and urging Indians to clean their own latrines had failed miserably. Votes: 1

Insurgencies are easy to make and hard to stop. Only a few ingredients need to combine to create an insurgency; like oxygen and fire, they're very common and mix all too often. The recipe is, simply, a legitimate grievance against a state, a state that refuses to compromise, a quorum of angry people, and access to weapons. Votes: 1

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we? Votes: 1

Courage refuses frontiers! Votes: 0

An ocean refuses no river. Votes: 0

The present day composer refuses to die. Votes: 0

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction. Votes: 0

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity. Votes: 0

The heart holds answers the brain refuses to see. Votes: 0

Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options. Votes: 0

Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries. Votes: 0

Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody. Votes: 0

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses Votes: 0

When someone refuses listening to reason disaster will surely follow. Votes: 0

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it. Votes: 0

A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow. Votes: 0

A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings. Votes: 0

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. Votes: 0

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it. Votes: 0

A person who refuses to give up will always succeed eventually. Votes: 0

Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market. Votes: 0

Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be broken beyond repair. Votes: 0

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism. Votes: 0

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive. Votes: 0

The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose. Votes: 0

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. Votes: 0

to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent. Votes: 0

Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine, Votes: 0

You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go. Votes: 0

I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down. Votes: 0

I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down! Votes: 0

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave Votes: 0

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection. Votes: 0

We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges. Votes: 0

The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it. Votes: 0

Better to be blinded by love than hate; one forgives and the other refuses. Votes: 0

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve Votes: 0

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. Votes: 0

She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful. Votes: 0

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished. Votes: 0

Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys. Votes: 0

The morose one refuses to smile even when he has just had his teeth cleaned. Votes: 0

A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die. Votes: 0

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Votes: 0

The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner. Votes: 0

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. Votes: 0

A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities. Votes: 0

A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's. Votes: 0

Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things. Votes: 0

Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything. Votes: 0

Words are worth little when the heart refuses to hear. Therefore, judge us by our works. Votes: 0

The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose. Votes: 0

Success will smile at the man who refuses to lie down at the corridor of failure. Votes: 0

God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way. Votes: 0

A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light! Votes: 0

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy. Votes: 0

Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people. Votes: 0

A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.] Votes: 0

Many new technologies come with a promise to change the world, but the world refuses to cooperate. Votes: 0

You might be a redneck if Santa Claus refuses to let your kids sit in his lap. Votes: 0

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus. Votes: 0

How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak. Votes: 0

It's always about a character that I become obsessed with and who refuses to leave me alone. Votes: 0

The eye of judgment sees at a distance what it refuses to see in it's own reflection. Votes: 0

Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong. Votes: 0

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. Votes: 0

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage. Votes: 0

The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books. Votes: 0

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act. Votes: 0

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour. Votes: 0

Goths do not hate the world. They just learned to accept the world that refuses to understand them. Votes: 0

The real failure is not the one who falls down, it's the one who refuses to get up. Votes: 0

He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her.. Votes: 0

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. Votes: 0

If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver. Votes: 0

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires. Votes: 0

It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish. Votes: 0

That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go. Votes: 0

The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead. Votes: 0

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity. Votes: 0

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty. Votes: 0

YouTube is a problem. It has very big traffic, but it refuses to contribute to the weight of that traffic. Votes: 0

Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications. Votes: 0

When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker. Votes: 0

What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers. Votes: 0

A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up. Votes: 0

One of the greatest failures of every generation is that it refuses to read the minutes of the last meeting. Votes: 0

I'm not one of those artists who refuses to play their hits. I find that ridiculous. Hits are a blessing. Votes: 0

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. Votes: 0

No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it. Votes: 0

The Supreme Court refuses to abandon its convoluted Lemon test. The Lemon test has created havoc, misunderstanding, and hostility toward religion. Votes: 0

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time. Votes: 0

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence. Votes: 0

There's a tear in his eye that refuses to fall. If it would land on me, that would say it all. Votes: 0

It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open. Votes: 0

Those who are unhappyclutch at shadows, and togive themselves an enjoymentthat truth refuses them, theyartfully bring into being allsorts of illusions. Votes: 0

Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it. Votes: 0

As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grumpily refuses to wear any man's collar. Votes: 0

Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness. Votes: 0

I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused! Votes: 0

I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it. Votes: 0

Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything. Votes: 0

Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave. Votes: 0

My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery. Votes: 0

The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side. Votes: 0

Remember, a person who wins success may have been counted out many times before. He wins because he refuses to give up. Votes: 0

A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful. Votes: 0

Always remember that Nature refuses to be rushed. She can only be made to evolve and that takes time, so take heart. Votes: 0

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war. Votes: 0

Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong. Votes: 0

Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity. Votes: 0

What else other than success can happen to anyone who refuses to stay down in the midst of any struggle, challenge or obstacle? Votes: 0

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones. Votes: 0

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine. Votes: 0

Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough. Votes: 0

You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic. Votes: 0

My daughter refuses to call me mother in public; my little grandson calls me Spongeslob Squarebottom, and nobody else ever calls me at all. Votes: 0

When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos. Votes: 0

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. Votes: 0

Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced delivery systems. Votes: 0

Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away. Votes: 0

I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels. Votes: 0

It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with. Votes: 0

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven. Votes: 0

Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion. Votes: 0

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias. Votes: 0

Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous. Votes: 0

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it. Votes: 0

I'm supposed to hate you for what you did, I think. But her eyes linger on me in a way that refuses to let me. Votes: 0

I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather. Votes: 0

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried. Votes: 0

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way. Votes: 0

A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods. Votes: 0

This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction. Votes: 0

Since the Justice Department refuses to allow you to render a verdict, I'm going to present the case now, on the facts, against Hillary Rodham Clinton. Votes: 0

The secret is you need a director who refuses to walk away and you need a director willing to put their whole career behind the project. Votes: 0

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us. Votes: 0

No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices. Votes: 0

Despite the repeated attacks on American citizens by illegal aliens released from our jails, DHS refuses to stop freeing violent criminals who are in our country illegally. Votes: 0

Personal Responsibility is when a person sees a problem and refuses to be indifferent, but decides to rather look for ways and means of resolving the problem Votes: 0

Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution. Votes: 0

In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category. Votes: 0

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling. Votes: 0

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power. Votes: 0

People think that digital language is a fixed language, but it's not: it's very fluid. It's like I'm doing a painting where the paint refuses to dry. Votes: 0

Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free. Votes: 0

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives. Votes: 0

I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse. Votes: 0

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me. Votes: 0

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force Votes: 0

The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died. Votes: 0

The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work. Votes: 0

I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign? Votes: 0

In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility. Votes: 0

Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness. Votes: 0

The outlaw is the radical, the one close to the roots of existence. The one who refuses to forget their humanity and, in remembering, helps everyone else remember, too. Votes: 0

The Church is the home that accepts everyone and refuses no one ... the greater the sin, the greater the love that the Church should show towards those who convert. Votes: 0

The biggest hindrance to the missionary task is self. Self that refuses to die. Self that refuses to sacrifice. Self that refuses to give. Self that refuses to go. Votes: 0

When a man refuses to take money from those who give money to politicians, you don't pay the piper and sit back and let somebody else call the tune. Votes: 0

I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money. Votes: 0

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world. Votes: 0

The French have launched their own version of Google, called Quaero. You just type in the subject you're interested in, and Quaero refuses to look it up for you. Votes: 0

Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields. Votes: 0

But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life. Votes: 0

Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions. Votes: 0

Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him. Votes: 0

One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the job over to the United Nations. Votes: 0

The thing one reads and likes, and then forgets, is of no account. The thing that stays, and haunts one, and refuses to be forgotten, that is the sincere thing. Votes: 0

Moved by a passion they do not understand for a goal they seldom reach, men and women are haunted by the vision of a distant possibility that refuses to be extinguished. Votes: 0

There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy. Votes: 0

Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket. Votes: 0

The British Army has a fine tradition of being so distracted by what it is currently up to it stubbornly refuses to look round the corner, let alone into the future. Votes: 0

Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene. Votes: 0

A community which refuses to welcome - whether through fear, weariness, insecurity, a desire to cling to comfort, or just because it is fed up with visitors - is dying spiritually. Votes: 0

I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party. Votes: 0

I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified. Votes: 0

The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out. Votes: 0

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be as full a beech-tree as it can be. Votes: 0

Donald Trump refuses to give details about his policy plans. Trump apologized by saying, 'When I announced I was running for president, I had no idea people would take me seriously.' Votes: 0

Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own. Votes: 0

It is over, the Reich walls have collapsed, my generals have betrayed me and my army refuses to fight, this is the herr Doernitz! I only hope you can turn this around. Votes: 0

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God. Votes: 0

In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion. Votes: 0

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity. Votes: 0

Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created. Votes: 0

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty. Votes: 0

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. Votes: 0

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.... Votes: 0

I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance ... Such an attitude bespeaks an unimaginativeness, a mental obtuseness and obstinacy. Votes: 0

One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature's charge and all progress hinges upon it. Votes: 0

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions Votes: 0

The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe Votes: 0

Fate refuses to stop at the pretty part of the tale; Fate insists on more tests of courage and wit, a terrible end, even if the heroine's heart be pure and her crime accidental. Votes: 0

A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished and refuses to answer questions as to its final cause. Votes: 0

What can God do for a liar who refuses to repent? Can the Lord save him? He can't claim salvation. Baptizing him in water will not settle the trouble, unless you keep him under. Votes: 0

Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master. Votes: 0

I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it. Votes: 0

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind? Votes: 0

Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem. Votes: 0

The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be blown off; the time usually turns out to be 37 o'clock. Votes: 0

To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength. Votes: 0

That's just how time travel looks like to the untrained eye. The reason why there aren't more travelers is that your average physicist refuses to be eaten by a giraffe in the name of science. Votes: 0

In the rare event that the Supreme Court refuses to play along there is always a perfectly legal, extra-constitutional, quasi-legislative, quasi-executive, quasi-judicial, 'independent' regulatory commission or executive agency to kill off or override constitutional protections. Votes: 0