Quotes About Refusal

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside; "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail — the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions – and so I didn't pay much attention to those letters at all.

All I do know is as we age the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes heavier . . . much heavier. With each passing year, the price of our refusal to do that sorting rises higher and higher.

It was the reason he had survived. It was the ordinary way of saying she would refuse all other men. Only you. Come back.

On the seventh of May, Cerise Mar, Erian Mar, and Mikita Mar traveled to the aforementioned manor house and found Lagar Sheerile, Peva Sheerile, Arig Sheerile, and several men in their employ on the premises. Cerise Mar voiced a polite and a nonviolent request that they get the hell off our land, which was refused.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

By that argument, is not the opposite equally true? That what we reject ceases. That 'truth' is born in what we seek. That we create in order to believe. That we find only what we have created. That wonder does not exist outside ourselves? By our belief, we create the gods. And so, in turn, we can destroy them. With a single thought. A moment's refusal, an instant's denial.

The reluctance or frank refusal to have oneself or one's dependents vaccinated—euphemistically known as "vaccine hesitancy"—has been identified by the WHO (2019) as one of the top ten global health threats.

Your grand plan sounds more like 1940s Germany to me. What exactly do you plan to do with people who refuse to register?

My mother is now in the hospital 60 miles away, where they are treating her pneumonia. I refuse to feel guilty. Guilt is a destructive emotion and doesn't fit in with my Life Plan.

the trouble with the people on this planet is they refuse to think they refuse to believe anything except what they know

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.

Never was I supposed to hear the words 'He says he wants to see you.' But now that I have, there's no way to refuse.

My heart's been empty since you left - but still I refuse to put up a vacancy sign.I'm just not ready for anybody else to move in yet.

She refused to know love again. The thought of another heartbreak was far too much for her to bear.

A evita ridicolul înseamn? a refuza singura ÅŸans? de nemurire.

He had refused fancy clothes or makeup for this interview. His philosophy was that death should to be embarrassing; he was not about to powder its nose.

La confessione che chiama in causa l'ascoltatore è, come diciamo nel cricket, un demonio di palla da giocare. Se la rifiuti offendi chi si confessa, se l'accetti ammetti la tua colpa.

no negative thought can ever manifest itself unless I emotionalize the thought and accept it mentally. I refuse to entertain their suggestion of fear. Therefore, no harm can come to me unless I allow it.

You refused him," he said to me, almost angrily. "I'm not a fool, to take gifts from monsters," I said. "Where do you think its power comes from? Nothing like that comes without a price." He laughed, a little shrill and sharp. "Yes, the trick is to have someone else pay it for you

manipulation is the art of making another person's spirit dance for personal amusement, and only through honoring oneself do we become strong enough to refuse to dance.

Sabotai smiled. "You know the Yasa—if your clan needed you you could have refused to come.