#refuses

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#because #elected #fantasy #give #i

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#believing #go #go away #i #reality

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#after #effort #fully #only #person

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#black #definitions #man #power #refuses

We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#believes #bring #conservative #continuing #eastern

If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#because #been #bus #civil #civil rights

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

#be true #demand #detail #fit #homogeneity

The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel. ↗

— David Baker

#basis #getting #into #israel #necessary

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

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