You know Sarkozy offered me the Legion d'honneur medal? I refused. People said I refused because I don't like Sarkozy, but that's ridiculous. I refused because I don't like decorations - except on women.
Things refuse to be mismanaged long.
My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.
A cemetery never refuses a corpse.
Do not refuse the body what it asks for.
The well gives, but the bucket refuses.
To ask is no sin, and to be refused is no calamity.
Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.
The horse never refuses a homeward gallop.
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
It is better to refuse than to accept and not to go.
He who is sick will not refuse medicine.
You don't refuse your mother's breast for fear of scabies.
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling promise.
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.
I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present...
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
It is easier to take a couple of drinks than to refuse them.
Don't refuse a wing to the one who gave you the chicken.
I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse." "I am you Prince and you cannot refuse." "I am your loyal servant and I just did." "Refusal means death." "Kill me then.
Men who refuse to use condoms do not deserve to be fucked by anyone but other men who refuse to use condoms.
