#refusing

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#anything #bidding #doctor #even #good

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier. ↗

— Edith Evans

#artist #down #hard #her #justified

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

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up. ↗

— Robert Smith

#ever #grow #grow up #i #like

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