#refuse

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else. ↗

— Robert Smith

#being #born #children #constant #else

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#had #i #life #marriage #my life

I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#anybody #i #i am #jungles #never

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#illness #man #never #onset #own

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility. ↗

— Boris Becker

#accepted #advice #arranged #child #dna

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#because #bone #even #fiber #flesh

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order. ↗

— Erica Jong

#dishes #embarrassed #him #home #husband

I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms. ↗

— Kevin Keegan

#because #enjoyed #had #i #my own

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#based #behavior #i #i think #just

Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped. ↗

— Stand Watie

#before #could #felt #fields #friendly