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A child of the new generation Refused to learn multiplication. He said 'Don't conclude That I'm stupid or rude; I am simply without motivation.' -- Joel Henry Hildebrand
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar. -- Christopher Walken
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. -- Aleister Crowley
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
For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK. -- Zaha Hadid
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. -- B. C. Forbes
I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it. -- Salmon P. Chase
When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused. -- Bashar al-Assad
Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports. -- Simon Mainwaring
I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Our government has failed us. From the billion-dollar bailouts to the 'stimulus' package that failed to stimulate to the government takeover of health care, you cried 'Stop!'... but the Democratic Majority in Washington has refused to listen. -- Kevin McCarthy
One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network. -- Rush Limbaugh
I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up. -- Robin Sharma
Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do. -- Billy Graham
I went out with some old friends and we were having fun. A couple of them were very intoxicated. When I went to leave, I refused to let them drive. So when I got pulled over, I was the driver. -- Rima Fakih
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play 'The Crucible' analysed the hearings in the context of a previous American mass psychosis, the Salem witch trials. -- Jane Smiley
In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other news in my family: My father had become the Republican presidential nominee. As an ambitious young major, I refused any offers for other assignments. -- John Eisenhower
During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home. -- Daniel Boone
My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college. -- Uzo Aduba
Superstars come and go. I want to make sure I am always a producer's actor. I may be refused to be called a great actor but I have never troubled any of my producers in my life. Honesty always catches the camera, and that is what my strength is. -- Akshay Kumar
The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars. -- James Surowiecki
It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped. -- Graham Joyce
When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do. -- Michelle Obama
There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good. -- Jude Law
What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league. -- Walter Dean Myers
Light refused increases darkness. -- Adrian Rogers
Money refused loose its brightness. -- George Herbert
Mony refused looseth its brightnesse. -- George Herbert
I've refused roles because they're too simplistic. -- Henry Czerny
I refused to take no for an answer. -- Bessie Coleman
I spoke to ears that refused to hear. -- Ronald Reagan
I refused to march because George Bush marched. -- Diane Nash
A favor is half granted, when graciously refused. -- Jonathan Swift
I refused to let go of what I had. -- Erwin McManus
It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived. -- Publilius Syrus
God's wraith is really only the face of love refused. -- Peter Kreeft
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring. -- Zelda Fitzgerald
Since the age of three I have refused God nothing. -- Therese of Lisieux
I refused to beat my head against stone, of course. -- Herbert Lom
My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted. -- Walker Percy
Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it. -- Pierre Corneille
My analyst refused to hear my dreams. This was years ago. -- Jeanne Moreau
Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up. -- Sylvester Stallone
I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model. -- Trisha Yearwood
The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone. -- Bob Marley
I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals. -- Coco Chanel
Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. -- Charles Spurgeon
His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees. -- Constantin Brancusi
Oh, he was asking to have an open marriage and I refused. -- Newt Gingrich
I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance. -- Wanda Sykes
I refused then like I do now to let anybody tie me down -- Ray LaMontagne
Those who refused to respond to new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish. -- Philip K. Dick
He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists. -- Spike Lee
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us. -- Ovid
Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to. -- Aspen Matis
I refused from the beginning to restrict myself to any sort of lifestyle. -- Nico Tortorella
The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused. -- Claudia Cardinale
There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. -- Joe Orton
I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him. -- Bob Dylan
For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own. -- Ai Weiwei
I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking. -- Teri Garr
If you steadfastly refused to quit, you rapidly narrowed your options to only winning. -- Brad Thor
...she refused to leave anything to someone else that she could do better herself. -- Michelle Moran
I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both. -- Catherine Helen Spence
There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky. -- Julie Christie
It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept. -- J. K. Rowling
O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused! -- William Shakespeare
it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused. -- Patricia Wentworth
A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up. -- David McGee
Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
I've always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about. -- Claude Monet
I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel. -- George W. Bush
I never refused autograph seekers, unless they were old enough to look like collection agents. -- Joe Pepitone
...And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield... -- Don McLean
Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.... -- Janet Fitch
Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth. -- Jack Zipes
If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free. -- Joan Slonczewski
We stand the risk of backwardness, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks. -- Sunday Adelaja
It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment. -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky
You stand the risk of bankruptcy, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks. -- Sunday Adelaja
We stand the risk of regression, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks. -- Sunday Adelaja
We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks. -- Sunday Adelaja
It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused. -- Richard Pryor
I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had. -- Sam Sheppard
We stand the risk of stagnation, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks. -- Sunday Adelaja
I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels. -- Alison Tyler
Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life. -- Paulo Coelho
My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it. -- Roz Chast
As a world leader who refused to accept injustice, Nelson Mandela's courage helped change our entire world -- Salil Shetty
If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain. -- John Shaw Billings
It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act. -- Edward Kennedy
Jesus refused to produce a sign. .. because it was not the Father's will, nor his, to be Messiah. -- John Hagee
I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt. -- Billy Carter
When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country. -- Taslima Nasrin
Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say. -- J. K. Rowling
Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read. -- Philip Massinger
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. -- Edward Gibbon
If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history. -- Justina Chen
I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course. -- Jean Paul Gaultier
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. -- Anatole France
In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female. -- David Brinkley
As a matter of fact, she has refused to marry me." "So when's the wedding?" Ramsey asked. -- Julie Garwood
As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same. -- Sean Duffy
Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought." -- Luis Walter Alvarez
What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience. -- Isak Dinesen
Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence. -- B. B. King
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. -- Margaret Atwood
I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls. -- J. K. Rowling
Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background. -- Diane Abbott
When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good. -- C. S. Lewis
I've always been incapable of accepting fate, and I've always refused to die, and that has helped me to survive. -- Walter Bonatti
The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race. -- Louis Zamperini
It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge. -- Paulo Coelho

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