#refusing

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using. ↗

— Samuel Daniel

#best #cutting #full #grows #love

To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot. ↗

— Joshua A. Norton

#continuing #desire #event #here #his

Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful. ↗

— Ric Ocasek

#chance #help #helpful #need #refusing

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#destiny #fulfilling #our #refusing #them

My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#america #debate #died #engage #family

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

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. ↗

— Plato

#being #end #governed #inferiors #participate

Single |sin•gle| (adjective) - Too fabulous to settle. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-single #fabulous #loving-yourself #not-settling #positive-thinking

When you refuse to settle for less than the best...the best tends to track you down. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#knowing-your-worth #life #living-your-best #not-settling #positive-thinking

Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#did #done #eliminate #four #good