Quotes of: Refusal Keyword

Komarovski: [Contemptuously] Who are you to refuse my sugar? Who are you to refuse me anything?

Doctor Zhivago

Man counts what he has refused, not what he has given.

Kikuyu

REFUSAL When you refuse to tell your weight and age, people know you're fat and old.

Chocolate Waters

The wrong-headed fool who refuses counsel, will come to grief.

South African

He who refuses a gift will not fill his barn.

Sierra Leonean

To give too much when little is asked is a form of refusal.

Spanish

A wife's advice is not worth much, but woe to the husband who refuses to take it.

Welsh

The pen is truly mightier than the sword. Unless you're holding a pen and the other guy's holding a sword.

The Liquid Refuses to Ignite

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

Robert Smith

I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.

Paul Gascoigne

I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!

Christine Lavin

I was admonished to adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.

Jeanne d'Arc

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

Albert Camus

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.

Alan Dershowitz

He who asks for alms blushes once; he who refuses, twice.

Turkish

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

The Dispossessed

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

William Hull

Knowledge is talkative, refuses to shut up.. Wisdom is so subtle, refuses to be invisible..

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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced delivery systems.

Noam Chomsky

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

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