#refuse

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #refuse




I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to.


Connie Nielsen


#art #aspire #business #even #fame

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.


Plato


#live #men #part #punishment #refuse

I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.


Jonny Wilkinson


#burger #case #even #fast-food #go

Oh! to be sure," cried Emma, "it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her.


Jane Austen


#harriet-refuses-mr-martin #imagination

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.


Kofi Annan


#african #armies #because #intimidate #keeping

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.


Jane Austen


#ever #incomprehensible #man #marriage #offer

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.


James A. Baldwin


#black #definitions #man #power #refuses

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.


Edward Albert


#another #another day #day #days #fear

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.


Laurence Housman


#arrested #avoid #been #bound #charged

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.


William Hull


#alone #approach #asked #attend #bible