#refuses

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

#because #conceal #exist #express #fail

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage. ↗

— Manning Marable

#generation #intellectual #leave #out #overcome

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#british #commerce #confident #constant #constant flow

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#denial #exclusively #man #more #possess

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#good #opposition #ourselves #refuses #shall

If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#abide #against #anger #decision #either

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#generation #kind #length #like #our

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#after #effort #fully #only #person

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#black #definitions #man #power #refuses

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#assign #born #climates #common #countless