#refuse

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off. ↗

— Jack Paar

#because #gave #god #i #me

AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#because #civilizations #common #community #entire

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#complicated #i #intellectually #me #nostalgia

It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#been #chance #had #i #me

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture. ↗

— Denis Leary

#i #nurture #refuse #share #will

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. ↗

— William James

#challenges #credit #fact #in fact #just

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. ↗

— Washington Irving

#brood #cherish #consider #dead #divorced

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits. ↗

— LL Cool J

#hip-hop #i #limiting #limits #refuse

We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#both #constitution #constitutional #houses #i

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#avoiding #external #hate #him #internal