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Quotes About Refusal

This,' said Lymond, 'is by no means a game I will play, or consider playing. Move.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
What can you say, when a man asks you to dance with him? I most certainly will not dance with you, I'll see you in hell first. Why, thank you, I'd like to awfully, but I'm having labor pains.
~ Dorothy Parker
Dirk turned on the car wipers, which grumbled because they didn't have quite enough rain to wipe away, so he turned them off again. Rain quickly speckled the windscreen. He turned on the wipers again, but they still refused to feel that the exercise was worthwhile, and scraped and squeaked in protest.
~ Douglas Adams
It was on the fourth day that the stewardess finally urged me up on deck. Under the impression that I should die quicker below, I had steadfastly refused to leave my bunk. She now tempted me with the advent of Madeira. Hope rose in my breast. I could leave the boat and go ashore and be a parlourmaid there. Anything for dry land.
~ Agatha Christie
I've seen other actresses refuse to be ugly. Even if the story line calls for it or the character calls for it, they just can't go there for vanity's sake, and they don't want to be perceived in an ugly way. I was like, 'Nah, I wanna go for this.'
~ Andrea Navedo
When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language.
~ Anthony Marra
There are no limits to the mercy of God, but anyone who deliberately refuses to accept his mercy by repenting, rejects the forgiveness of his sins and the salvation offered by the Holy Spirit.
~ Ralph Martin
Give all to love;Obey thy heart;Friends, kindred, days,Estate, good fame,Plans, credit and the Muse,Nothing refuse.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth
~ Raoul Vaneigem
Oh hell no!!
~ Ray Garton
I've challenged Cain Velasquez to a fight three times. He's a little boy who doesn't want to fight. He said no, live on TV.
~ Tyson Fury
If that term [sexual assault] confuses you take out the word sexual and just focus on assault, on violence, on the refusal to treat someone as a human being, on the denial of the most basic of human rights, the right to bodily integrity and self-determination.
~ Rebecca Solnit
If that term confuses you take out the word "sexual" and just focus on "assault," on violence, on the refusal to treat someone as a human being, on the denial of the most basic of human rights, the right to bodily integrity and self-determination.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Zeal implied a strict adherence to the Torah and the Law, a refusal to serve any foreign master—to serve any human master at all—and an uncompromising devotion to the sovereignty of God.
~ Reza Aslan
Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Hey man! Get away from me!
~ Mickey Mantle
A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.
~ Oswald Chambers
A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.
~ Ayn Rand
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most presidents have been controlled by forces that control money and special interests. When Donald Trump refused their money, he refused their control. This made him dangerous.
~ Louis Farrakhan
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
~ Anatole France
When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.
~ Sue Sanders
Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.
~ Leif Enger
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
~ Edmund Burke