#refuse

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey. ↗

— Matthew Prior

#anger #cruel #dart #escape #fantastic

Oh! to be sure," cried Emma, "it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her. ↗

— Jane Austen

#harriet-refuses-mr-martin #imagination

This above all, to refuse to be a victim. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#refuse #victim

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#black #definitions #man #power #refuses

I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. ↗

— Joe Arpaio

#am #constitutionally #elected #federal #federal government

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. ↗

— Halle Berry

#i #love #refuse #settle

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#chill #environment #feet #ground #heart

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me. ↗

— Iris Dement

#believes #call #damned #fight #guy

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#assign #born #climates #common #countless

The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#bring #demand #despite #economy #exists