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Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.

Alexander Graham Bell

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Albert Camus

As an actor and writer, husband and father, I have two often-conflicting monkeys on my back: Monkey number one is Creative Monkey. He occasionally digs his claws into my brains, and refuses to let go until something wonderful comes out. I love him.

Wil Wheaton

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Philip K. Dick

She's a diligent person, and she refuses to stop. She's a go-getter.

Nicole Gibbons

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Bernard De Voto

The winner ain't the one with the fastest car its the one who refuses to lose.

Dale Earnhardt

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Simon Wiesenthal

He just refuses to obey the laws, ... It is becoming ridiculous. It's an eyesore and it's also bringing our tax values down.

Jane Kennedy

There's a tear in his eye that refuses to fall.If it would land on me, that would say it all.

Tim Mcgraw

We told them that after 20 hours if Israel refuses our demands, ask the German authorities for a civilian plane to carry the hostages to any Arab country to enable us protect them.

Abu Daoud

What you're seeing here is an industry that refuses to accept responsibility for the harm it is capable of.

Tim Winter

The housing market just refuses to stop.

Lawrence Yun

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

Iris Dement

This is yet another indication that the ANC government refuses to act firmly against corruption and seems determined to keep the former deputy president at the forefront of its badly tainted public image.

Sheila Camerer

My best guess? Eddy shows up at camp, refuses the test, we go to arbitration and the arbitrator tells the Bulls they simply can't compel him. We'll find out soon enough.

Alan Milstein

Becca Gardner is wonderful as the good-hearted little Griff who refuses to be daunted by all the heart-ache and resentment on dad's ranch and this young actress proves there's another young child actress in Hollywood besides Dakota Fanning.

Richard Roeper

Armando has been a constant spark for our team. Whenever we need a big hit, he seems to through. He is just one of those guys that refuses to lose.

Michael Hirsch

He who refuses to obey cannot command.

Kenyan Proverb

Some of the money the domestic mutual funds have raised will also come into the market now. That's one reason why the market refuses to go down.

Mihir Vora

The defendant absolutely refuses to take any responsibility for his actions.

Owen Heimer

She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful. [About Susan Sontag].

Michael Silverblatt

It's because she is a competitor. She refuses to take no for an answer. She didn't just comeback. It was almost like she didn't miss anything.

Kyle Fenner

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

Richard Von Weizsaecker

If the government flatly and consistently refuses to provide figures, it means only one thing - it's been abusing the powers so flagrantly it can't give you figures.

Audrey Eu

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Rabbi Hillel

You don't need a cape. But an actor who refuses a cape is a fool.

John Didonna

They said they have no intelligence, and I don't believe that, ... The Vatican refuses totally to cooperate with us.

Carla Del Ponte

Can any reasonable person now blame the staff, if the management that congratulates you for going beyond the call of duty, refuses to look out for you when you're becoming ill, because of their own ineptitude.

Stephen Thomas

[1:50: The next shot features all five players lined up and jumping into the pool. Shakur, citing a bum ankle, refuses to jump.] You can't swim, can you? ... I'll make it.

Rashad Mccants

Situations like that are when Lauren is in her domain. She's such a competitor and she refuses to get rattled. You can't teach that kind of composure.

Denise Ainsworth

He still refuses to give back the tainted money from disgraced party leaders.

John Lapp

CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

Arthur C. Clarke

What can you say about Cassie that hasn't already been said? She knows what's on the line and she is type of person that refuses to quit.

Andrew Booth

Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.

Leslie Fiedler

We don't want to do this. But if Canada Post still refuses to hand over the documents after two months, we won't have much choice but to search for the documents ourselves.

Deborah Bourque

Ken Blackwell refuses to debate, once again demonstrating his reliance on negative attacks and empty rhetoric.

Bob Paduchik

Since Matt's been at Yale, I've become a Bulldogs fan, ... Matt may not have been the most gifted athlete, but he was one of the hardest-working guys. That rubbed off on me. Also, he's a real big competitor. Even if we're just playing a video game, he refuses to lose. That kind of rubbed off, too.

Tim Bishop

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

BLM previously acknowledged that the beauty and sensitivity of these lands required an update to its management plan to consider protecting them, a sensible position the agency now refuses to follow.

Adriana Raudzens

Instead of holding hands with Saudi officials and other members of OPEC, we should hold them accountable for these record gas prices, ... The primary reason people are paying so much at the pump is because President Bush refuses to get tough with his Saudi friends.

Frank Lautenberg

She has the heart of a champion. She just refuses to lose.

Mike Helmer

He has a quality you don't see in a lot of politicians. He looks at all sides of the issue and then makes a decision based on what he believes is right. He refuses to compromise his principles.

Mark Proctor

Unlike some actors we'd rather not name, the gecko always knows his lines, he never refuses to come out of his trailer, and -- except for the occasional fly -- he doesn't expect special dietary considerations on the set.

Steve Bassett

The county is pursuing its own reckless water policy and refuses to sit down with the town. They continue to isolate us. That smacks of some power control county issue.

Bob Hadfield

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

I have information he is hiding in a Franciscan monastery, and so the Catholic Church is protecting him. I have taken this up with the Vatican and the Vatican refuses totally to co-operate with us.

Carla Del Ponte

Her number one attribute is her competitiveness. She refuses to let her team lose. She refuses to be stopped.

Sean Durkin

I don't know how many [troops] might have gotten sick as a result. I can't know, because Halliburton apparently has no records and refuses to acknowledge there might be a problem.

Ben Carter

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

Joseph Stalin

This is a big opportunity. I've got to try to go out there and do more, and I have no problem with that. I'm a person who refuses to fail.

Horace Jenkins

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

William James

It is a very inefficient working economy, in that respect, that the pool of talents is there but the antiquated system refuses to tap into it.

Noriko Hama

At this point there's nothing Ken Starr can do to force him to answer a question. Now if he refuses to answer a question Mr. Starr could bring the subpoena against him again, subpoena him and then force him to answer the questions, but that would take another course of legal proceedings.

David Strauss

I met 92-year-old Isabelle Thomas in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She has fought four different types of cancer and just refuses to give up. She is just one of the dozens of reasons why I'm walking.

Eric Latham

The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.

Zoe Lofgren