What has changed is
What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn’t have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that. Eve Arnold
Refusal
Prayer is the disciplined
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts. Eugene H. Peterson
By ‘coming to terms
By ‘coming to terms with life’ I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life has, so to speak, been extended by death, by my looking death in the eye and accepting it, by accepting destruction as part of life and no longer wasting my energies on fear … Read more
People cheat on each
People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn’t begin to describe the ways that people let each other down. Esther Perel
A man assumes that
A man assumes that a woman’s refusal is just part of a game. Or, at any rate, a lot of men assume that. When a man says no, it’s no. When a woman says no, it’s yes, or at least maybe. There is even a joke to that effect. And little by little, women begin … Read more
Thought is a process
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. Eric Hoffer
Also, perhaps children are
Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all. Elizabeth Bowen
I do assure you
I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that … Read more
Sometimes God\\’s refusals are
Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies. Elisabeth Elliot
God never witholds from
God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God’s refusals are always merciful — \”severe mercies\” at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better. Elisabeth Elliot