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More Than' means refusing to define yourself according to what society dictates, or everyone around you thinks you should do or be.
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.
Our asylum laws were written to protect victims fleeing persecution in their home countries. By limiting the scope of these laws and refusing to acknowledge gang violence or domestic violence as a valid reason to seek asylum, we are turning away women and children in grave danger.
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.
May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.
Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.
I agree that sometimes Michelle Obama can come across as angry - and anger is discomforting. We venerate that empty word, closure, wanting to seal off the pain of the past and refusing it admittance to the chirpy present. This, of course, is nonsense.
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.
"What has God placed in you or given you and you are not using it, or you are using it in the wrong way. What has God trusted you with and you say you are not read. You say not you. You say no, it is too small, useless or pointless. You say it is nothing. You are complaining about those small opportunities God gives you. You are turning down jobs , refusing help and complaining about everything in your life. You are not willing to use what you have or what is given to you. Small it may be. If God can't trust you with small things. How do you expect him to bless with big things, big success, big house, big cars, big career, big position and big break through.
Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable
Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)
May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff shrinks would say. I was eight and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.
We are free but not to be evil not to be indifferent to human suffering not to profit from the people from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything for the answer will be that it is their imagination.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include as necessary to one's own happiness the happiness of others.
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