Refuse To See Quotes

#1. It's not the good we see in the people we love, but what we refuse to see that gives us strength."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
"Sometimes when we care about someone, we deny what's right in front of us so we can move forward, so we have a reason to continue to love.

V.R. Barkowski

#2. Our reason tries in vain to show them to us; we refuse to see them till we find them in the way of our interests." Prince

Andrew Lang

#3. I can only see life as this most miserable accident that I have been forced to endure simply because I refuse to see it as the most astounding plan that I have been privileged to engage.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#4. An allusion is something we refuse to see, but we see what we want to see ...

Edna Stewart

#5. I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#6. It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.

Robert Baer

#7. One cannot have any respect or regard for men who take the position of the reformer and
then refuse to see the logical consequences of that position, let alone following them out in action.

B.R. Ambedkar

#8. Fate' and 'coincidence' are the mythological derivatives authored by those who refuse to see a 'greater purpose', because such a conclusion would naturally suggest a 'Greater Being'.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#9. Refuse to see anything without seeing God in it. via Donald S. Whitney Ten Questions To Diagnose Your Spiritual Health

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#10. I close my eyes to the truth. I refuse to see what's happening, convinced that I can handle whatever it is believing that I'm strong enough and will recognize when I'm not. - Emma

Rebecca Donovan

#11. I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog ... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

Mindy Kaling

#12. If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.

Anthony De Mello

#13. On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#14. An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

James A. Michener

#15. Hatred happens when we refuse to see someone for their entire selves; we fear that if we see more than the qualities we hate, we will become them or worse, allow them to enter our hearts.

Katherine Russell

#16. People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.

J.C. Ryle

#17. Just because you refuse to see something doesn't mean it isn't real

Nicole Williams

#18. If you refuse to see Superman Returns this summer, what you're saying about yourself is: I heart Al Qaeda.

Christian Finnegan

#19. Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#20. To the prophetic mind all history is and will continue to be a prelude. The prophetic type will steadfastly refuse to see the world as a museum; it will insist that here is a stage set for a drama that perpetually begins.

H.G.Wells

#21. I have a personality defect where I REFUSE to see myself as an underdog.

Mindy Kaling

#22. There are so many powerful people in this world who refuse to see any vision they didn't think of.

Orson Scott Card

#23. Today, refuse to see yourself as a recipient of negative vibrations or as a victim of subtle or gross influence around you. Practice broadcasting the high vibrations of your inner radiance remembering all the while that the place upon which you stand is holy simply because you are standing there.

Michael Beckwith

#24. I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?

Ralph Ellison

#25. All my life, I should not have worried so much about looking foolish; I see that now. Signs matter. And all waves are dangerous, especially the ones you refuse to see coming.

Suzanne Finnamore

#26. Men are so blind in their impiety that, as it were, they bump into mountains and refuse to see what hits them in the eye.

Augustine Of Hippo

#27. The world is complicated, so people seek complicated solutions. And there's nothing wrong with that because simple answers don't usually work. But sometimes the answers are simple and people still refuse to see them. - Edgar Roy

David Baldacci

#28. If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.

Steve Maraboli

#29. We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#30. Lived to see you throwing
Me aside. That fought
like netted fish inside me. Saw you throbbing
In my syrups. Saw you sleep. And lived to see
That all flushed down
The refuse. Done?
It lives in me.
You live in me. Malignant.
Love, you ever want me, don't.

Louise Gluck

#31. I do admit to mocking atheists, because mockery is a legitimate form of debate according to my rule Book. God Himself mocks evil men who refuse His moral government (see Proverbs 1:26-27).

Ray Comfort

#32. We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies.

Mahatma Gandhi

#33. despair of ever making it out of slavery and the slum. Psychologists often see the same resistance to escaping in women who are in abusive relationships. They may live in fear and pain, but they refuse to leave the abuser because they are more fearful of the unknown.

Nick Vujicic

#34. There are times in my career where I can see it would be helped by having a bit more of a profile, but it's not like I refuse to do interviews, no, not at all.

Michael Sheen

#35. Pretty hard to see when you refuse to look. Pretty hard to hear when you refuse to listen.

Jeff Bell

#36. If you grant asylum to so many refugees, your house may be sacked sooner by the soldiers; I see that clearly. The question is, however, whether, because of this danger, you should refuse to practice such a beautiful virtue as charity.

Vincent De Paul

#37. The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.

Laozi

#38. The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

Claudius Claudianus

#39. Those who were afraid of the dark and always refused to throw themselves inside it. Never got to see and feel how beautiful it is, to meet and greet one's own demons.

Akshay Vasu

#40. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done
then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#41. AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations.

Sarah Polley

#42. Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.

Sharon Shinn

#43. The first step in identifying "heresy" is to refuse all identifications with the subjective intuitions and experience of the "heretic," and to see his words only in an impersonal realm in which there is no dialogue - in which dialogue is denied a priori.

Thomas Merton

#44. I've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way of my acting because I don't see my job as being a beautiful person.

Zooey Deschanel

#45. You cannot refuse to eat just because there's a chance of being choked.

Lisa See

#46. I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be the last book I see for months.

Tamora Pierce

#47. See the bigger picture of yours and refuse the passport size creature that people think you are! Your nature is large; go for it. Feel free to wake up and print your bigger picture!

Israelmore Ayivor

#48. I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

Peter Singer

#49. Refuse to put others either above you or below you, but instead see them as you.

Pauline Holyoak

#50. There is the difference between us," he said. "You are God embodied. You walk around within the greatest miracle of this universe, yet you refuse to touch or see or feel or believe in it.

Frank Herbert

#51. Did you refuse to be tested to see if you and he were Soul Complements because you were afraid you might want sex with him?
Yes, I am tactful that way.

Devon Monk

#52. Curses are our conscious choices, so is grace," said Rama. Every error is an invitation to see our reality better, to realise where our consciousness is and where it can be. When we refuse to reach out to the potential of our consciousness, a curse befalls us.

Tomichan Matheikal

#53. Never was I supposed to hear the words 'He says he wants to see you.' But now that I have, there's no way to refuse.

Suzanne Collins

#54. You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they cannot touch or measure, and anyone who happens to see a thing that is invisible to most people is immediately branded a lunatic.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#55. People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

Brendan Francis Brown

#56. Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me,
I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me

William Shakespeare

#57. Freud is all nonsense; the secret of neurosis is to be found in the family battle of wills to see who can refuse the longest to help with the dishes.

Julian Mitchell

#58. Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.

Philippe Petit

#59. It's exactly the thing that I'm reduced to doing for myself. It seems to rescue a little, you see, from the wreck of hopes and ambitions, the refuse-heap of disappointments and failures, my one presentable little scrap of an identity.

Henry James

#60. Here and there among men, there are those who pause in the hurried rush to listen to the call of a life that is more real ... He who sees and hears too much is cursed for a dreamer, a fanatic, or a fool, by the mad mob who, having eyes, see not, ears and hear not, and refuse to understand ...

Harold Bell Wright

#61. In the shadow my father has cast over my entire life, you are the only light I can see anymore. And, whatever the cost, I refuse to let that light be extinguished

Morgan Rhodes

#62. The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time ... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

William S. Burroughs

#63. I want to
peel away all the labels
I had once given to others
and place them
upon the fabric
of my own identity.

They have reflected back to me,
everything that I refuse
to See in myself.

Meraaqi

#64. Look to see the best in everyone - especially in those who refuse to do the same. Perhaps your kindness will break someone's shell or be a catalyst to change their mind

Allison McAtee

#65. Be the change you wish to see in the world," said Gandhi. If you want a nonviolent world, you cannot use violence to achieve it. He also said, "In the end the British will walk out because 100,000 British cannot control 350 million Indians if those Indians refuse to cooperate.

Russell Brand

#66. I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.

Geoffrey Hinton

#67. Because I refuse to perform my music in a traditional sense of instrumentation, I don't have an amazing live stage spectacle to provide, and I don't want to go there. I don't see how the music would stay true to the spirit of the work.

Tim Hecker

#68. Don't you see, Ren? That's exactly why I have to go. You need to know that you can survive without me. That's there's more to life than just me. You need to see this world that's opened up to you and know that you have choices. I refuse to be your cage- Kelsey, pg. 401

Colleen Houck

#69. The stories are what they are in my head. They take their own course and refuse to be influenced by anything or anybody. So I just record what I see and hope that people like it.

Jessica Bird

#70. The abbess may well try and force me to return to the convent, silent and in disgrace, but I will not go back. Not like this. Indeed, I can see no way I can ever return to the convent, for the abbess will not let me return in victory, and I refuse to do so in defeat.

Robin LaFevers

#71. Refuse to accept anything negative, which you see around you. Declare in the spiritual realm what God is saying.

Sunday Adelaja

#72. It dawned on him - as it hadn't before; he was dense, he was slow - that his parents were five hundred miles away. They could make him come home, they could refuse to pay the portion of his tuition they'd agreed to pay, but they couldn't see his jeans. "Understood," he said.

Chad Harbach