Quotes About Refused

And the family who had refused to acknowledge the woman's illness and who had all immunized themselves from concern by conceiving their own problems, now performed their duties.

But this controversy did not involve the corporal who refused to give thought to what his life had become as a case. God did not think of a man as a case. For a case is to be solved—and a man cannot be solved.

If you just send me the tuition money for summer session, I'll . . ." "No." "What?" Clearly it had never occurred to him that his request might be refused.

Two young adventurers for hire. Willing to do anything, go anywhere. Pay must be good. No reasonable offer refused.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today's legislation and America's middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly.

Congressional Republicans refused to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act because they objected to the protection it gave immigrants, transgender women, and Native American women.

SOME SAID that the men had been put on trains and sent far away, over the mountains, to the coldest part of the country. Some said they were enemy collaborators and would be deported within days. Some said they had been shot. Many of us dismissed the rumors as rumors but found ourselves spreading them—wildly, recklessly, and seemingly against our own will—nonetheless. Others of us refused to speak of the missing men by day but at night they came to us in our dreams.

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.

Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better.

I have refused to buy a car for the reasons of sustainability.

After my bad experience as a kite, I simply refused to go about as a glowing Sadie-headed chicken. That's fine for Carter, but I have standards.

I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

the U.N., the Red Cross, and other organizations steadfastly refused to condemn Hamas rocket launches from mosques.

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.

Years ago, NPR tried to stop me from going on "The Factor." When I refused, they insisted that I not identify myself as an NPR journalist. I asked them if they thought people did not know where I appeared on the air as a daily talk show host, national correspondent and news analyst. They refused to budge.

Everything and all of them were being rattled around like peas inside an enormous rattle that was being rattled by a mad giant who refused to stop.

If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.

Anti-Vision: a vacancy where a new idea refused to appear. For several moments it filled the screen, depthless and white. Gregory was fascinated. Was it really empty?

Needless to say, it passed, for what group of voters ever refused to levy a tax on someone else, especially if it benefited themselves?

By the conflict's end, more than 20,000 British men of military age had refused the draft.

Joe grabbed the remote, pressed a button to pause the piece and then played it again. No doubt; the bloke who'd refused

I just have these terrible memories of our first European tour back in 2007. We had hired this van and tour service from the former Czech Republic called Fluff Wheels, and they sent us out with this 19-year-old vegan driver kid who had no money and refused to eat anything.