Refused Quotes

430 quotes by 381 authors

That is what has been said in the media and at the trial. To this day nobody has produced one. There is no written confession,… — John Wayne Gacy
Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused… — Dale Carnegie
You said how strange it was that people were prepared to buy expensive material objects, but when it came to making an investment in their… — Sarah Ferguson
In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled… — Barbara Kingsolver
I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of… — Alan Bradley
I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life — Marlon Brando
Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge made that critical leap from 'be afraid' to 'be very afraid,' raising the terrorist threat level to orange for financial… — Jon Stewart
I've refused roles because they're too simplistic. — Henry Czerny
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… — Bashar al-Assad
I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel. — George W. Bush
I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of… — Galileo Galilei
It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky
When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence.… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave… — Andrew Sullivan
There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes; Far easier to condemn his injurers, Than for the… — Michelangelo
But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the… — Anna Maxted
Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. — Joe Orton
Philostratus, in his Life of Apollonius Tyaneus represents the latter as informing King Phraotes that "the Oneiropolists, or Interpreters of Visions, are wont never to… — Anna Kingsford
It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived. — Publilius Syrus
Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything… — Lord Chesterfield

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