Quotes About Refusal

Rockefeller kept renewing his earnest plea that Margaret be educated in New York City, and it became a sore point with him that Charles refused to oblige him.

As the panic deepened, Rockefeller refused to release collateral despite Corrigan's pleas that he could use his lake vessels to raise additional money.

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

life had once again, perversely, refused to remain life-sized. It had turned melodramatic: and that embarrassed him.

He was dead. He knew he was dead. He refused to submit to eternity. He beat again into the unknown.

The true source of her illness was the unfulfilled longing for communication, the deprivation of genuine contact with her parents and boyfriend. Her refusal to eat was the sign of this deficiency. Ultimately her recovery was possible because Anita realized that there were people who could and did understand her.

How attractive, how delectable, the prospect of intimacy is, with the very person who will never grant it. I can still feel the pull of a man like that, of his promising and refusing. I would still like to know things. Never mind facts. Never mind theories, either.

No matter how much I pushed, she refused to have the genetic screening that could save her life. I

Gandhian economic boycott, however, combined refusal to buy English textiles with the collection of funds for the merchants precisely not to confuse the key issue by threatening their livelihood.

I am the Spirit that always denies!

You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.

"there is some s. I will not eat"

Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.

Speaker Reed's] wit was brilliant and usually cruel... Asked to attend the funeral of a political enemy, he refused, "but that does not mean to say I do not heartily approve of it.

Just say no.

We can force treatment on those who would refuse (chapters 1, 4 and 6); we can separate people from their families.

The general was sufficiently impressed by the young man to ask him to go back to Italy with him. His back to the wall, Atticus for once in his life refused to do a powerful man's bidding. "No, please, I beg you," he replied. "I left Italy to avoid fighting you alongside those you want to lead me against." Sulla liked his candor and let the matter drop.

the Senate ordered that the dead consuls' armies should be handed over to Decimus Brutus, he refused

After two years with 'Donna,' they offered me a new contract, but I said no. I didn't want to be the fourth man through the door any more.

I protect myself by refusing to know myself.

Non, monsieur. Je n'ai pas le canif de mon oncle.' That

end of this painful story: a man possessed and maddened enough to write such letters, and a bereaved father receiving them, until at last he reached the point at which he refused to read any more.

how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty—which was to step aside and vanish into history.