Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.
If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.
Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.
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.
The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.
And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it.
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
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.
Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.
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 same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
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.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories