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Quotes About Refuse

Do you know when Jehovah's Witnesses were commanded to refuse blood transfusions?" "It's set down in Genesis. It dates from the Creation." "It dates from 1945, Mr. Henry. Before then it was perfectly acceptable.
~ Ian Mcewan
As a young actor, I played a lot of 'exotic' parts and was stuck with the tag 'sultry.' I had to refuse such parts if I were ever to play anything else. It did the trick, but my agent feared it made me harder to cast.
~ Diana Quick
I just refuse to listen to any more lies. You hear them from FEMA, you hear them from Red Cross and I just didn't want to hear it from him.
~ Avery Johnson
The weight of the weapon would defy the current – that was the important thing, the way it would refuse to be carried along. Some things could do that. Some things possessed the necessary weight to acquire a will of their own.
~ Steven Erikson
This was a station, a limbo-no storehouse, but a refuse heap.
~ Storm Constantine
Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.
~ Virgil
Fight Is Excuse Love Not Refuse
~ Hemant Banswal
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard
~ Miriam Toews
If conquest is the only reason for a war, conquest from which only the ruler stands to gain, then people should refuse to fight. If, however, a war is to be fought for the defense of one's family and property, then men should fight with all their heart and might.
~ Chaim Potok
That's what fashion is, really. A way of renegotiating the terms that life deals you. When a woman changes her hair what she's really saying to fate is, no. I refuse to be defined by those terms.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
~ Kathryn Bigelow
Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.
~ Candace Bushnell
He who takes up the sword perishes by the sword. He who refuses to take up the sword perishes on the cross.
~ Gene Edwards
I was conscripted to military service, and my gut feeling was to refuse to serve. I did not want to kill other people. This seemed to me wrong, if not in principle, so at least in practice.
~ Torbjorn Tannsjo
I'm sorry, TikTok, but I refuse to have a TikTok account. Like, I can't. Like there's only so much I can do.
~ Whitney Port
To love those who hate us is to refuse to borrow their hatred.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Therin lies the paradox of the profession,' Faraday said. 'Those who wish to have the job should not have it...and those who would most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.
~ Neal Shusterman
Therein lies the paradox of the profession, those who wish to have the job should not have it.....and those who most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.
~ Neal Shusterman
Therein lies the paradox of the profession," Faraday said. "Those who wish to have the job should not have it . . . and those who would most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.
~ Neal Shusterman
My preference was the demolition of the lobby altogether. [Of all of my books], only Sula has this 'entrance.' The others refuse the 'presentation,' refuse the seductive safe harbor; the line of demarcation between…them and us. Refuse, in effect, to cater to the diminished expectations of the reader, or his or her alarm heightened by the emotional luggage one carries into the black-topic text….
~ Toni Morrison
Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
~ Kofi Annan
Então se não vieste à caça, não se procura, encontra-se. E encontrámos este sítio. Some-se se o recusarmos. É o adequado por ser este mesmo, Mariana, o sítio onde a lebre dorme no campo, onde está agachada à nossa espera, a surpresa.
~ Carmen Martín Gaite
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
~ Casanova
trash. The contents of the bag I tagged look like basic garbage
~ J.D. Robb