#refuse

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse? ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#first #how #job #king #minister

Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

#creature #dangerous #delicate #destroyed #empty

As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich. ↗

— Brian Williams

#enter #i #israel #israeli #known

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#close #come #dad #i #magic

Good bye" is a good gift when you wave it at me because I refuse to follow a bad advice you gave. Wave it at me and I will show you the door. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#advise #bad-advice #bad-friend #bye #bye-bye

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

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