{"quotes":[{"text":"There is still hope that if the people refuse to give up and keep silent, no matter how long or inconsequential their voices could be at the beginning, it would still be heard and justice be served.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["danger","darkness","destruction","give-up","god","hope","ignorance","justices","knowledge","life","light","mountain","people","power","refusal","silence","speak-out","voices"],"id":12108,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"And now, for something completely the same:Wasted time and wasted breath,'s what I'll make, until my death.Helping people 'd be as good,but I wouldn't, if I could.For the few that help deserve,have no need, or not the nerve,help from strangers to accept,plus from mine a few have wept.Wept from joy, or from despair,or just from my vengeful stare.Ways I have, to look at stupid,make them see I am not Cupid.Make them see they are in error,for of truth I am a bearer.Most decide I'm just a bear,mauling at them, - like I care.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["acceptance","bear","bears","breath","breathing","caring","cupid","deciding","decision","decisions","deserve","deserving","despair","difference","different","erroneous","error","errors","good","helping","joy","mauling","mistake","mistakes","nerve","nerves","nothing","others","people","poem","poems","refusal","strange","stranger","strangers","stupid","tears","truth","vengeance","vengeful","waste","wasted","wasted-time","weeping"],"id":22661,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"Refuse to be isolated. Your accomplishments are patronized by people who would get interest in them. When you don’t get connected, how will you get to know those people?","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["accomplish","accomplishment","connect","connection","food-for-thought","friends","interest","isolated","israelmore-ayivor","network","networking","patronize","people","refusal","refuse"],"id":23487,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.","author":"Gertrude Stein","tags":["acceptance","refusal"],"id":26933,"author_id":"Gertrude+Stein"},{"text":"You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe it is the only reason you do not see it.","author":"Neville Goddard","tags":["reason","refusal","see-it","want-to-be"],"id":49773,"author_id":"Neville+Goddard"},{"text":"Nader refused to bring her the feathery dream catcher – her asabikeshiinh – with its willow-web and invisible ‘lady spider’ apparently weaving her spells – an object Bea insisted always hung above her in bed.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["-carla-h-krueger","dream-catcher","dreams","lady-spider","refusal","sleeping-with-the-sun","spells","spiderweb","spiritual"],"id":57758,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"It doesn't take an army to change the world, or an average-sized militia group, either. All it takes is one individual to say the word 'No'. Be it a man refusing to register for the draft, or be it a gun owner refusing to register his weapons in Connecticut, it is the same: defiance in the face of arbitrary authority.","author":"Mike Klepper","tags":["itarianism","change-the-world","conscription","defiance","draft","gun-control","gun-rights","individuality","power-of-thoughts","refusal","refusal-to-answer-the-call","refusing-to-settle"],"id":69339,"author_id":"Mike+Klepper"},{"text":"(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:)'[W]hile we perceive ... The zeal and love of your mind towards us is not diminished, yet in part we are grieved that we cannot gratify your Serene Highness with the same kind of affection. And that indeed does not happen because we doubt in any way of your love and honour, but, as often we have testified both in words and writing, that we have never yet conceived a feeling of that kind of affection towards anyone.We therefore beg your Serene Highness again and again that you be pleased to set a limit to your love, that it advance not beyond the laws of friendship for the present nor disregard them in the future. ... We certainly think that if God ever direct our hearts to consideration of marriage we shall never accept or choose any absent husband how powerful and wealthy a Prince soever. But that we are not to give you an answer until we have seen your person is so far from the thing itself that we never even considered such a thing. I have always given both to your brother ... And also to your ambassador likewise the same answer with scarcely any variation of the words, that we do not conceive in our heart to take a husband but highly commend this single life, and hope that your Serene Highness will no longer spend time in waiting for us.","author":"Elizabeth I","tags":["bachelorhood","empowerment","freedom","friendship","independence","love","marriage","marriage-proposal","matrimony","queens","refusal","self-determination","singles","women"],"id":69404,"author_id":"Elizabeth+I"},{"text":"And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["bereavement","gift","grief","loss","love","passion","receiving","refusal","self-sabotage"],"id":84832,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"Honor, obey?' Gisbourne shouted, grappling with John. 'This is what you call being a good wife?'I stopped. 'I never said I'd be a good wife, Guy. Just that I'd marry you.","author":"A.C. Gaughen","tags":["gisbourne","good","marriage","refusal","scarlet","wife","wifely-duty"],"id":86462,"author_id":"A.C.+Gaughen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":39,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}