#refuse

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#courage #final #hell #how #i

I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that. ↗

— Anjelica Huston

#being #bowl #days #eat #four

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car? ↗

— Cyndi Lauper

#age #am #car #i #refuse

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#does #either #i #i think #like

I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#art #aspire #business #even #fame

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

Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#alone #art #capitol #century #come

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#african #armies #because #intimidate #keeping

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. ↗

— Jane Austen

#ever #incomprehensible #man #marriage #offer

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 we refused. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#differed #good #interests #matched #mold