I cannot forgive you. That day, if you had not refused, I would have given you a present. I would have carved my love in stone.
Nous sommes nés en des temps de chaos, où chacun a l'esprit confus. On voudrait rester à l'écart de ce monde de fous, mais ce serait refuser sa part de butin.
The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change?
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the words and make them meet for lunch.
What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.
I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.
To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.
Her soft trailing fingers would continue to attempt a connection that I refused to allow; that I couldn’t allow if I wanted to survive.
I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.
He refused to believe in his own weaknesses, and with her he had not found a weakness to fit himself against.
I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.
If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help others out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.
And the hunger that once chewed at them like a mean dog now seems more like an annoying houseguest who simply refuses to leave.
Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right.
The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.
Hope – or perhaps delusion – was a flame that had stayed lit, even though its scorching light would hurt. It had refused to go out.
Life without Ethan was something worse than a nightmare. It was real. So real that I refused to believe it.
Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
