#refuse

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#anything #confess #crew #doing #i

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#denial #fail #forgiveness #generation #hear

Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#become #believe #christians #content #die

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#acknowledged #declaration #equals #everything #independence

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model. ↗

— Trisha Yearwood

#gorgeous #i #make #male #model

Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing. ↗

— George Woodcock

#command #fairly #good #i #i am

The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel. ↗

— David Baker

#basis #getting #into #israel #necessary

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#controlling #court #fundamental #individuals #interest

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#autographs #hell #i #i think #movie

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#because #concept #decided #down #failing