Quotes About Refusal

The least offensive way of refusing a request is not to let it be made.

That is Pride," explained Wisdom. "It is the hardest enemy to see after you have been in the glory. Those who refuse to put on this cloak will suffer much at the hands of that most devious enemy.

Stop that , I told my brain. Also, the wedding is tomorrow , said my brain. Get out of my head. My brain refused to get out of my head. Inconsiderate brain.

If somebody offers you Hapi pills, just say no!

No. I refuse to share this part of my story. It was the lowest, most humiliating, most awful week in my four-thousand plus years of life. Tragedy. Disaster. Heartbreak. I will not tell you about it. Why are you still here? Go away.

I'd thought I had recovered for good from that sadness, but as I felt my marriage disintegrate, the memory of my raw yearning for babies and my husband's refusal to have them with me came back to me as part of the reason I was now leaving him. It felt like the heart of why I was so lonely with him.

No was most definitely Faolan's favorite word. No and More milk.

Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.

The only power an actor has is the ability to say "no."

We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.

Give you a reason on compulsion! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.

I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.

As long as the world's been the world, there's been those who live with it and those who refuse to accept it.

Of course, I'm aware of the animosities destroying brain cells on both sides, and I know all about the obstinacy of the warring parties, their refusal to reach an agreement, their devotion to their own murderous hatred….

We refuse to let our knowledge, however limited, be informed by your ignorance, however vast.

The challenge is to find our destiny in exactly what we are refusing to engage in.

On the other hand, had Obama refused to permit Trump's inauguration, on the grounds that he was still occupying the White House, or that he was planning to install Clinton there, then democracy in America would have been done for, at least for now.

No buts, Ben. No. 'N' and 'O' spells 'no'.

will then dispose of the chocolate by eating it. Anyone who refuses to hand over their chocolate to me will not be EXPELLED. They will be held upside down by their ankles and dangled out of the window until they hand over their chocolate. After I have eaten their chocolate, then, and only then, will they be EXPELLED.