Actually, Bush, technically speaking, is not really President-because he refused to take the Oath of Office. I don’t know how many of you noticed this, but the wording of the Oath of Office is written in the Constitution, so you can’t fool around...
And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams...
Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?" "I consider their disdain for her to be a recommendation," he said. "She is a heretic." "She refused to join any of the devotaries because she did not believe in thei...
We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by its own inexhaustibility, and by its ultimate refusal to be applied or used, even for moral good. This ...
Work or die’—this is the essence of slavery, of compulsion. And yet this is our world. Most of our world is enslaved but does not know it. Only the homeless are free, and for their freedom we sentence them to death. To refuse compulsion is to ear...
Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and rejects the drawing of God's Spirit on his heart. ...
Love is just a contact of no refusal.
I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.
Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
I've still got it. I refuse to lose.
I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
I refuse to answer on the ground that this might be incriminating.
I protect myself by refusing to know myself.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.
I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.
I refuse to settle for what you call reality.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
I refuse to say things behind people's backs.
