Dorothy Thompson
Journalist, Author
"There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth."
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Refusal
43 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Diana Vreeland
Fashion Editor
"Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal."
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"He who asks with timidity invites a refusal."
Dante Alighieri
Poet, Philosopher
"He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it."
Andrei Tarkovsky
Film Director, Screenwriter
"The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise."
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"Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished!"
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"The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is."
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"He who begs timidly courts a refusal."
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"The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon."
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"He who never says "no" is no true man."
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"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere."
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"Who timidly requests invites refusal."
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"...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear"
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