Quotes About Refusal
Tas stared mournfully at the body of the goblin he killed. It had fallen facedown, his dagger buried underneath. "I'll get it for you," Tanis offered, preparing to roll the body over. "No." Tas made a face. "I don't want it back. You can never get rid of the smell, you know.
~ Margaret Weis
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He was acting typically human, the half-elf thought. Refusing that which was in easy reach, only to cry for it when it was gone.
~ Margaret Weis
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Le haré una oferta que no podrá rechazar.
~ Mario Puzo
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Ta s? Ä'ưa cho h?n má»™t l?i ?? ngh? mà h?n không th? t? ch?i.
~ Mario Puzo
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This guy is a personal friend of J. Edgar Hoover," Johnny said. "You can't even raise your voice to him." "He's a businessman," the Don said blandly. "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
~ Mario Puzo
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He was often angry at people because they contrarily refused to fit in nicely with his theories. And, of course, it was the people who were wrong. The theories had been advanced by the most Eminent Authorities, and proved by carefully selected case histories. His one satisfaction in life was that so many of the laws he had advocated to make people conform to these theories had been passed-despite strong opposition.
~ Mark Clifton
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When those aspects that have been unconsciously refused are returned, when they are made conscious, accepted, tolerated, or integrated, the self can then be at one, the need to maintain the self-conscious edifice disappears, and the force of compassion is automatically unleashed.
~ Mark Epstein
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Bizim elimizde kapa??n? açmay? reddettiÄŸimiz bir ÅŸiÅŸe su su varken yan?m?zda susuzluktan ölen birine aÄŸlamak kötülüklerin en büyüÄŸüdür...
~ Anthony Burgess
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She had an ethereal, dreamy personality that was typified by her adamant refusal to wear her glasses despite terrible nearsightedness. I once asked her if she could see without them, and she said that things were very fuzzy. So why didn't she wear the glasses? 'I really do prefer the world unclear' she said.
~ Anthony Kiedis
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Lady Glencora in her time had wished to marry a man who had sought her for her money. Lady Chiltern in her time had refused to be Lady Fawn. Madame Goesler in her time had declined to marry an English peer.
~ Anthony Trollope
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No, Mr Cheesacre; certainly not. For all our sakes, I should decline. But if you were married—" "You are always wanting to marry me, Mrs Greenow.
~ Anthony Trollope
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By this act He affirms that the enemy of love is pride, and that the enemy of all good is the refusal to love.
~ Antonin Sertillanges
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Personally, I refuse to drive a car - I won't have anything to do with any kind of transportation in which I can't read.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
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after Hal had refused to open the Pod Bay door.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
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Diga-me, você gostaria de ir para a Terra? Seus olhos arregalaram-se de espanto e ela negou resolutamente, sacudindo a cabeça. — É um lugar ruim. A gente se machuca quando cai.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
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I have decided to ask you to please go away." "All right," he said. "You asked me." "Please will you go away?" "No," he said. I could not think of anything further to say.
~ Shirley Jackson
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I told Ron to take my name off the paper," recalls Adleman. "I told him that it was his invention, not mine. But Ron refused and we got into a discussion about it.
~ Simon Singh
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Exister authentiquement ce n'est pas nier le mouvement spontané de ma transcendance, mais seulement refuser de me perdre en lui
~ Simone de Beauvoir
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God allows me to exist outside himself. It is for me to refuse this authorization. The self is only the shadow which sin and error cast by stopping the light of God, and I take this shadow for a being.
~ Simone Weil
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EFFACEMENT Dieu m'a donné l'être pour que je le lui rende. C'est comme une de ces épreuves qui ressemblent à des pièges et qu'on voit dans les contes et les histoires d'initiation. Si j'accepte ce don, il est mauvais et fatal ; sa vertu apparaît par le refus. Dieu me permet d'exister en dehors de lui. A moi de refuser cette autorisation. L'humilité, c'est le refus d'exister en dehors de Dieu. Reine des vertus.
~ Simone Weil
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But he saw now that he must remain alone, a Liberal, scorned by all the noisier prophets for refusing to be a willing cat for the busy monkeys of either side. But at worst, the Liberals, the Tolerant, might in the long run preserve some of the arts of civilization, no matter which brand of tyranny should finally dominate the world.
~ Sinclair Lewis
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It is not optimism, Daniel Jackson, merely the refusal to fail.
~ Sonny Whitelaw
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I try to pay for lunch, but Sam point-blank refuses, so we compromise on going Dutch.
~ Sophie Kinsella
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I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium.
~ Jeffrey Tate
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