#refuse

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #refuse




Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.


Charles Krauthammer


#bad guy #bomb #captured #case #choice

Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped.


Stand Watie


#before #could #felt #fields #friendly

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

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

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

But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream.


Indra Nooyi


#did #dream #elder #get #get married

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.


P. J. O'Rourke


#came #children #going #growing #growing up

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.


Pete Seeger


#audience #color #every #i #i am

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.


Catherine Helen Spence


#had #i #life #marriage #my life

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.


Ida Tarbell


#dangerous #does #even #fixing #idea