Quotes About Refusal

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.

I can pay you and your crew a great deal of money if you will return me to my home." Cloud stood up, picking up his own knife. With a dexterity matching Alexis's he threw the knife at the door. It stuck in the wood only a few inches from hers. "No," he answered firmly. "I do not want your money and neither do my men.

You have to stay away." "I'd rather not.

Many things will hurt you and me for we are very much alike. But will these things hurt us less if we refuse to accept them? Can we ease our hurts by refusing comfort from those who love us?

But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the humiliation is as stark as a streaker on a football.

Will you oblige me then?' His voice was low and smooth, nearly whispered ... Everything froze for a moment. Even the flickering lamps seemed to pause, flames surging upward and waiting ... 'No.

Someone brought me oranges in my despair but I could not eat a one

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

I've always kept a low profile and said no to 'Saturday Night Live' and stuff like that.

Try refusing the arrangement, or later petition for divorce -- the first is impossible while the second is like admitting you're a whore.

Nevertheless, his very superiority kept him from being a success in college--the independence was mistaken for egotism, and the refusal to accept Yale standards with the proper awe seemed to belittle all those who had.

J'ai voulu les quitter, mais ils ont refusé de me laisser partir — ma présence leur semblait sans doute plus rassurante qu'une complète solitude.

No is a better word than Yes

People keep saying Balachander discovered me. I differ. He invented me. When a stalwart like him suggests that I act in films, who am I to refuse?

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.

I've always refused to play terrorists.

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

But refusing to think about a thing only brings it more strongly to mind.

But when people suggested the haenyeo start using oxygen tanks, she, along with other divers around the island, refused. "Everything we do must be natural," she'd told the collective, "otherwise we'll harvest too much, deplete our wet fields, and earn nothing." There, again, balance.

But I've always thought—tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.... If you think it's really wrong...that's one thing. Maybe that's the test. But if it's only the fear of failure, you have not the right to refuse the gift for that. It's an impossible job. That happens sometimes.

Megan wanted to groan. You guys are smothering me. Braden leaned against the wall, watching it all, never speaking. Sexy and silent. Okay, so he had a few things going for him. Get used to it, Her father's voice brooked no refusal. Until I leave this world, you are still my daughter and still under my protection. Protect Lance. She waved her hand at her smirking cousin. He's in more danger than I am if he keeps pissing me off. Share the love, Dad.

She believes you can refuse to participate in certain emotions. "I like hamburgers but I don't eat them," she says. "Hamburgers are not an emotion," says Roz. "Yes they are," says Charis.

How can girls like to have lovers and refuse them? I think it's dreadful.