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Elegance is refusal.
Faith is the refusal to panic.
He who begs timidly courts a refusal.
No is no negative in a woman's mouth.
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
He who never says "no" is no true man.
Sometimes God's refusals are His mercies.
Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.
Frivolity is the species' refusal to suffer.
He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.
Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.
Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished!
We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.
The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.
Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.
What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?
The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.
A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.
Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.
The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.
The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere.
When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.
My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.
Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.
Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.
I grew up in the Boston suburbs and inherited a stubborn New England refusal to acknowledge frigid temperatures.
Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.
The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.