Quotes About Refused

Cora's mother and Ava grew up on the plantation at the same time. They were treated to the same Randall hospitality, the travesties so routine and familiar that they were a kind of weather, and the ones so imaginative in their monstrousness that the mind refused to accommodate them.

Heredity is no more than the material from which man builds himself. It is no more than the stones that are, or are not, refused and rejected by the builder. But the builder himself is not built of stones.

Three times, the king, who had disliked and mistrusted Magellan for more than twenty years, refused

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

She asked for an exception to choose from the course catalogue. The school refused to grant it. It had never been done before, they said. The local college refused to help without her high school's permission. Those were the rules, they said, and there was nothing anyone could do.

Most unwilling was she to awaken from such a dream of felicity, to comprehend all the unhappy truths which attended the affair; and for some time she refused to submit to them.

I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

Barton 'strongly reproached the President'79 and said the whole situation had arisen because of de Valera's 'vacillation'. He had had his chance of going to London and had refused.

Henry James hated epilogues and refused to use them in his fiction. He said that life granted us no "epilogues", so why should art or literature?

This was a savage whose image refused to blend with that ancient picture of a boy in shorts and a shirt.

Barth refused to enlist theology merely to sustain Western civilization.

Anarchism has quite simply refused to learn from its historic failures, preferring to rewrite them as successes.

the saint told her that more tears were shed over prayers that were granted than ever were shed over prayers that were refused.

Cerebus heard the Panrovian March of Virgins had to be canceled . . . your daughter got pregnant . . . and your wife refused to march alone!

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

The only possible exception to this rule applies to those of us in Generation X, where the outnumbering Boomers refused to be budged. (Yeah, thanks for that.)

protesting, but she refused to let go. "Aha!" She squinted at his shirt.

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

The companies that refused to make hard choices, or refused to admit that anything much was happening, fared badly. If they survive, it is only because their respective governments will not let them go under.

But this had happened to me more than once in my life: I had refused to allow convention to determine my conduct, only to learn, after I'd gone my own way, that my bedrock feelings were sometimes more conventional than my sense of unswerving moral imperative.

I love this landscape, the literary man began while they were walking through an irregular forest of pillars. The only things here are /things/. The paint of meaning is peeled off. The things here have refused to be of any assistance at all to men.

He thought reporters a nuisance and at first refused to deal with them at all. It was said, half-jokingly, that King would have liked to say nothing until the end of the war, and then release a two-word communiqué: "We won

Paul didn't trust Klein and refused to sign with him, turning instead to his new father-in-law, Lee Eastman, who was also a successful showbusiness lawyer. This had led to enormous tension between John and Paul.