#refuse

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#background #cane #cut #forebears #i

I refuse to sit on my laurels. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#laurels #refuse #sit

Only idiots refuse to change their minds. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#idiots #minds #only #refuse #their

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility. ↗

— Boris Becker

#accepted #advice #arranged #child #dna

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#choose #gender #i #ignore #just

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#been #every #evil #go #good

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

#day #died #eyes #getting #her

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. ↗

— Hartley William Shawcross

#answer #comes #conscience #his #leader

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#family #feel #get #guilty #had

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked. ↗

— Ovid

#been #delights #give #just #refuse