He Refused Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless;…
— Josef Pieper
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I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to…
— Fritz Sauckel
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It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being too special and…
— Lionel Trilling
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As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of…
— Scott Turow
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Diminished circumstances had no effect on his sense of what was honorable: after The Spectator sent him a check for a piece it had accepted…
— Louis Menand
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The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the…
— Leonard Maltin
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She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed…
— Aleister Crowley
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Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have…
— Francoise Sagan
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His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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...he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which he regarded with an ever…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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You are such a chicken. Bock. Bock. Bock." He refused to allow her very bad chicken impression to ruffle his feathers. He was above petty…
— Christine Feehan
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It was a nice bit of blackmail that kept him off my back, but he refused to take the message that I wasn’t going to…
— Kim Harrison
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Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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In Ghazalia, Mr. Hussein showed his contempt for the majority Shiites in ways large and small. He refused to allow them even one mosque, while…
— Alex Berenson
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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…
— Stand Watie
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The Ancient mosque is located within the walls of the old city of Tebessa, is the oldest mosques in the state, built by the Ottomans…
— Zakaria Eldjazair
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I was negotiating a contract to accept Jesus as my personal savior, but he refused to recognize my free sex clause
— Al Medwin
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In 2000, I pushed Ricky Martin very hard to admit if he was gay or not, and the way he refused to do it made…
— Barbara Walters
Who Wrote These He Refused Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 19 He Refused Quotes as follows: