Rebuff Quotes

#1. When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#2. He thought of Laurent's delicate, needling talk that froze into icy rebuff if Damen pushed at it, but if he didn't
if he matched himself to its subtle pulses and undercurrents
continued, sweetly deepening, until he could only wonder if he knew, if they both knew, what they were doing.

C.S. Pacat

#3. Because only the greatest fool alive would rebuff a love such as yours. And I should like to think I am not as stupid as that.

Catherine Miller

#4. Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

Robert Browning

#5. The same politicians who demand the abolition of all impediments to the mobility of goods and services have been busily erecting mighty barriers to rebuff an accompanying wave of human beings. In

Francis Wheen

#6. I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

Anne Roiphe

#7. Big government is a national security threat: it increases your vulnerability to threats like Islamism, and makes it less likely you'll be able to summon the will to rebuff it.

Mark Steyn

#8. If I had to rate myself between one and 10? If you're a gingerist and like ginger guys, I guess I'm a seven, with make-up on maybe an eight. If you're not a gingerist, I'm probably a six, six and a half.

Jason Flemyng

#9. I mourn the piece of myself that I gave away and will never get back

Maggi Myers

#10. Independent Thinking simply means making up your own mind.

Pearl Zhu

#11. Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

Joe Abercrombie

#12. Our global forests are the lungs of the world, and protecting them is fundamental for our survival. When we hand these forests over to future generations, we must be able to say we exercised our stewardship wisely and responsibly

Edward Davey