#refuse

Only idiots refuse to change their minds. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#idiots #minds #only #refuse #their

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#i #initially #me #nixon #opposed

In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#cell #cell research #currently #embryonic #embryonic stem cell

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control. ↗

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#because #blown #control #difference #first

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#angry #because #been #exceptionally #flying

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses. ↗

— Virgil

#consider #each #refuses #soil #will

I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy. ↗

— Roger Waters

#because #blair #disapprove #foreign #foreign policy

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one. ↗

— Andre Gide

#each #joy #line #loyalty #makes

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#because #bitter #did #died #fact

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#excluded #expect #family #hold #intercourse