#refusing

May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#broadcast #christmas #christmas day #classic #day

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner. ↗

— Robert Capa

#date #invasion #lana #like #miss

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#gratify #insolent #patriot #refusing #starts

At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#class #court #debt #debt limit #financial

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles. ↗

— Kit Williams

#calling #candles #defied #denied #distraction

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#everything #famous #nothing #others #people

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not. ↗

— Phil Crosby

#decision #learning #making #refusing #search

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#consider #facts #may #out #position

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#darkness #diminish #glory #god #him

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#almost #ever #fools #here #his way