#refuse

The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#books #efficient #even #forces #go

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt. ↗

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

#adapt #altered #been #beginning #believers

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#die #go #got #guarantee #happen

There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#home #i #more #much #phone

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#debate #defend #first #first of all #i

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#i #imprison #mould #our #refuse

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

#because #conceal #exist #express #fail

I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#beaten #down #going #horrible #i

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#because #i #i am #invisible #me

I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans. ↗

— Harold Ford

#give #help #i #majority #new