#refused

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#duty #his #life #man #manner

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#believe #built #came #cities #denied

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good. ↗

— Jude Law

#allow #also #because #believe #feel

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#disney #film #himself #kind #last

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement. ↗

— Rand Paul

#also #any #clay #close #cousin

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#army #before #first #first of all #i

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt. ↗

— Billy Carter

#brother #conform #i #image #lot

I refused to take no for an answer. ↗

— Bessie Coleman

#i #refused #take

I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#fuehrer #give #give me #had #i

I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#authorities #give #had #i #information