#refuse

The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#day #died #eyes #getting #her

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it. ↗

— Salmon P. Chase

#because #black #black or white #connected #fees

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#adolescent #challenge #culture #educational #inevitable

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#i #initially #me #nixon #opposed

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals. ↗

— Diogenes

#anything #because #called #dog #fawn

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control. ↗

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#because #blown #control #difference #first

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. ↗

— Mark Twain

#another #another way #awards #more #noise

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses. ↗

— Virgil

#consider #each #refuses #soil #will

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#driven #emergency #gradually #itself #make

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act. ↗

— Bernard De Voto

#becomes #exact #meaningless #point #reason