#fuse

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#end #fight #go #i #i am

I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#anything #book #completely #confused #even

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. ↗

— Al Hirschfeld

#children #crayons #down #just #put

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer. ↗

— Charles Brenton Huggins

#cannot #give #nature #refuse #she

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#because #bone #even #fiber #flesh

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

#be true #demand #detail #fit #homogeneity

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order. ↗

— Erica Jong

#dishes #embarrassed #him #home #husband

Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#feminists #opportunity #outcome

I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#asthma #away #coaches #diagnosed #during

Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#accidents #actually #correct #hopefully #likely