#refuse

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again. ↗

— Barack Obama

#again #agreed #because #billionaire #cannot

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#chill #environment #feet #ground #heart

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art. ↗

— Balthus

#art #confide #i #like #people

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#away #buildings #claim #earth #fence

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ↗

— Mark Caine

#captive #environment #find #first #first step

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money. ↗

— Michael Caine

#here #i #just #money #much

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. ↗

— Albert Camus

#man #only #refuses

If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King. ↗

— Ramsey Clark

#bus #dr #had #heard #i

It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn't refuse to do another movie. ↗

— Sean Connery

#another #i #movie #need #offer

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#common #eminent #fear #few #give