Quotes of: Refusal Keyword

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

Aleister Crowley

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

Bashar al-Assad

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

William S. Burroughs

With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future.

Diana DeGette

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

Salvatore J. Cordileone

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

Halle Berry

Goths do not hate the world. They just learned to accept the world that refuses to understand them.

enna snow

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

Horace

The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror.

Ernst Junger

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

E. V. Lucas

Our very existence refuses your laws and your science, your religions and your philosophies.

B.E. Scully

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

Gertrude Stein

the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons

Hannah Arendt

We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

Hanoi Hannah

I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.

Christopher Walken

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

Judy Garland

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

Joseph Hume

The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.

Alastair Campbell

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.

Jules Verne

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

Zaha Hadid

That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.

Hassan Nasrallah