#refuses

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#autographs #hell #i #i think #movie

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we? ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#always #away #be happy #drama #dull

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#dangerous #does #even #fixing #idea

As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich. ↗

— Brian Williams

#enter #i #israel #israeli #known

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

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

— Virgil

#consider #each #refuses #soil #will

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

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection. ↗

— Richard von Weizsaecker

#inhumanity #new #prone #refuses #remember

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one. ↗

— Andre Gide

#each #joy #line #loyalty #makes

If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#directions #driver #new #person #refuses