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A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.
Doris DayRead
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.
Albert EinsteinRead
Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
Jane FondaRead
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.
Alexander McqueenRead
The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.
Pope Benedict XviRead
The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
Isaac AsimovRead
I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and loving attention, even in personal matters, where I see that a student is in need of such attention.
Paulo FreireRead
He does not refuse sustenance to the one who speaks ill of Him. How then could He refuse sustenance to the one whose soul is over flowing with love for Him?
Rabia BasriRead
Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is most pleasing to God, and most useful to ourselves. Do not then, O devout soul, refuse to begin this devotion; and forsaking the conversation of men, dwell each day, from this time forward, for at least half or quarter of an hour, in some church, in the presence of Jesus Christ under the sacramental species. Taste and see how sweet is the Lord.
Alphonsus LiguoriRead
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
MenciusRead
You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: 'The world is passing away; the world is losing its grip; the world is short of breath. Don't fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.'
Saint AugustineRead
The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced for it, can never refuse to come forward when he finds that she is engaged in dangers which he has the means of warding off.
Thomas JeffersonRead
...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world will soon be driven from it; and that it is therefore in their interest to retire while there yet remain a few hours of nobler employments.
Lyndon B. JohnsonRead
Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.
Seneca The YoungerRead
Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
Amos Bronson AlcottRead
A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.
Jonathan SwiftRead
The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
Simon WiesenthalRead
The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
Martin LutherRead
Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.
Eleanor RooseveltRead

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