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Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

Horace Mann

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.

Douglas Adams

...tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Helen Keller

If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.

Publilius Syrus

I am only one, still I am one. I can not do everything, still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Helen Keller

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

Bertrand Russell

I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.

Jonny Wilkinson

How many Irishmen are there who would purchase material prosperity at such a price? It is exactly such a question as this and the answer to it that shows the difference between the English and Irish race. Nine Englishmen out of ten would jump to make the exchange, and I firmly believe that nine Irishmen out of ten would indignantly refuse it.

Douglas Hyde

They (the government) imposed the jobs plan without consulting anyone. They only agree to talks when a million people go into the streets to demonstrate, so we refuse to talk to them until they withdraw it.

Bruno Julliard

The idea of training the brain gives us hope. I think many of us are overly frightened of getting old, or even refuse to admit it.

Rika Kayama

With or without the bill, we refuse Playboy magazine.

Maruf Amin

I'll make you an offer you can't refuse!

Victoria Gotti

Division-I football, that would be hard to refuse.

Matt Sledge

It gives us no pleasure to stand in numbers between communities who refuse to engage with each other to resolve their differences but until they do we will continue to do our job and it will continue to cost money on this scale.

Sir Hugh Orde

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Maya Angelou

We fail to understand what Kashmiri leaders have in mind. On the one hand, they demand that they want to be involved in the peace process and, on the other, when the opportunity comes their way they refuse to sit down.

Dr Shabir Choudhry

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

Madame de Tencin

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

African Proverb

The tobacco company can kill us. The package food companies can clog our arteries. The oil companies can provoke wars. But, apparently, there's no industry more despicable than the music industry. We are hated just because we refuse to acknowledge the public's God-given rights to steal music.

Larry Kenswil

They (the publishers) would be ecstatic, I just refuse to. You can't repeat a great act.

Colleen Mccullough

Part of the problem is that insurance company management people are totally convinced we're in a hurricane cycle and they refuse to acknowledge where hurricanes actually hit.

Jack Hardman

I challenge my disability. And I refuse to let her tell me that I couldn't do this. Last semester I just completed my last math class with a B.

Mary Briseno

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Jane Austen

They refuse to lose. We've gone to overtime three times and had a number of other close games. We're battle-tested.

Dave Pugliese

Companies that made lead pigments decades and decades ago can hardly be held (responsible) because a small group of landlords refuse to obey the law and maintain.

Bonnie Campbell

We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

Bobby Sands

We don't recommend that you refuse to pull over. Drivers who have doubts should insist on seeing the officer's shield and ID card to be sure. Every police officer carries them and will produce them if asked.

Martin Gleeson

It's got to be tempting to allow yourself to be flattered, buttered-up, helped, given favors and so forth. It's hard to refuse them unless you very consciously recognize that it's one of the permanent ethical challenges of that life.

Gary Jacobson

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Our preliminary data showed that mothers were effective in increasing the mediating variables -- knowledge of how HIV is transmitted, self-efficacy to refuse sex and the intention to refuse sex -- than the other two interventions.

Barbara Dancy

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

It was just too good to refuse.

Peter Wuffli

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Ovid

Is this making it more difficult? Yes. But I refuse to let people from other locations keep us from doing what we need to do.

Laurie Madigan

We have not even been sounded out so we cannot even refuse.

Ryutaro Hashimoto

I don't know what he hopes to accomplish. It's just a bullying process, and I just refuse to be bullied.

Felicia Stockford

If these rules are not followed, GCHS reserves the right to ask said person to leave or refuse any additional Q&A.

Shawn Grass

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Peter Ustinov

We fail to understand what Kashmiri leaders have in mind. On one hand they demand they want to be involved in the peace process and on the other hand when opportunity comes their way, they refuse to sit down.

Dr Shabir Choudhry

Israel, for its part, has taken necessary steps to further progress with the Palestinians. The Palestinians, for their part, continue to refuse to take the necessary steps to prevent terror against Israel.

David Baker

Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.

Federico Fellini

My interpretation is that Pinochet can refuse to have the examinations, but at the same time the law obliges the investigating judge to request them.

Ricardo Israel

You don't refuse to do the right thing because there's a risk involved. Tom Buchanan belongs on the short list.

Jeanne Holland

Having open source or proprietary companies that refuse to work with one another from a sense of purity is a real disservice to end users.

Bernard Golden

If you didn't ask for personally identifying information, it would be interesting to see if the government cited privacy as a reason to refuse.

Thomas Burke

We will use every tool at our disposal to go after operators that refuse to pay their penalties for mine safety violations, and that includes holding the people who control them personally responsible.

David G. Dye

He grabbed his chest and said the iron hit him in his chest. And he wasn't a person that believed in going to the doctor. Black men didn't go to doctors. Even to this day you have quite a few of them that refuse to go to a doctor.

William Gambler

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

Without a specific reason for the consumer to behave, without a reward or benefit, the overwhelmed consumer will refuse.

Seth Godin

They throw HIV-infected people into the river or dig a grave and put them in it and let them die, or just leave them down the backyard and refuse to feed them.

Franciscan Father Jude

You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.

Greg Anderson

If they refuse to negotiate and our contract is rejected, therefore we would not willingly work without a contract. Therefore, we would choose the time and place to perform a job action.

Lee Moak

We have never known an Ivory Coast hostile to foreigners. We refuse to accept that image. This is not the Ivory Coast that we know.

Alpha Oumar Konare

The ad is reckless, malicious, and false, casting Mr. DeLay in a false light by accusing him of unsubstantiated criminal conduct. We demand that you refuse or otherwise cease airing the advertisement.

Don Mcgahn

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Aleister Crowley

If it happens, unions will refuse to fly, products will not be transferred, and we would see the global economy start to fall apart like a house of cards.

Laurie Garrett

I do not get money from him, but I would not refuse such money, ... only $10,000 and 5,500 euros from foreigners.

Shamil Basayev

If they refuse to leave a name and number, that's a clear indication.

Denise Hanson

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

Peter Sellers

Judge Jackson's ruling contains no legal analysis. I thought the judge would explain why his order was consistent with precedent. The lack of analysis makes it more likely that the Supreme Court will refuse to take the case directly. Jackson issued the ruling too fast.

Robert Lande

NYC Transit has been exploring various anti-terror initiatives, including the use of alternative means to collect refuse in the system.

Paul Fleuranges

It's a habit they have practiced for hundreds of years without having any problems with their health. When we tell them it now can cause problem, they hear it but sometimes refuse to believe it. And many of them still don't believe it now.

Kao Phal

I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.

Liam Gallagher

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nuture.

Denis Leary

I refuse to enter a wet T-Shirt Contest until my breasts look more like breasts, and less like something I should tuck into my pants.

Kelli Jae Baeli

There is no way I could refuse to do a cameo for Rohan and John.

Priyanka Chopra

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

P. J. O'Rourke

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.

Jeannette Rankin

The way that you will get suspended is if you flat-out refuse to do something. Teams will be responsible for enforcement. We're looking at the spirit of the law, not the letter.

David Stern

The Hong Kong government has its rights to refuse people entry, but it can't target people based on the religion and beliefs.

Frank Lu

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

A. W. Tozer

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

Clare Boothe Luce

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

O. A. Battista

We should refuse to allow this show, which promotes communist ideology, to come to a democratic country.

Huimin Wang

We've got guys who refuse to come out of the lineup. They know we need them as a team.

Ryan Metcalf

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Vera Brittain (mary)

As we intend to hold our council at the Huron village, that is near the British, we may probably make them a visit. Should they offer us any presents of goods, we will not take them; but should they offer us powder and the tomahawk, we will take the powder and refuse the tomahawk.

Tecumseh

We have a refuse-to-lose mentality. We played pretty well. We played intense. We didn't play smart, but I can't remember a better game.

Matt Creamer

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

We've got every excuse for why things shouldn't be going right for us, but we refuse to use them. Our kids think we have the best gym going, and one thing about it: It's ours.

Ron Hunter

We refuse to accept the results from these so-called elections.

Krishna Sitaula

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

Charles Brenton Huggins

Of all things, only wehave power to choose that we should die;nothing else is freein this world to refuse it.

William Dewitt Snodgrass

If the town would just maintain the speed on the road, I think it would be a 75 percent improvement. But they refuse to.

Mary Staples Webber

The majority of the charges carry sentences of above 15 years imprisonment, so after hearing the evidence we have decided to refuse bail.

Judge Adil Ahmed

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

People refuse to answer many questions because they feel that we are wasting their airtime. This is the reason why the police call for help while they are already at the scene.

Kenny Kapinga

Tony literally makes you an offer you can't refuse. He's always there for you, for everybody. So when he asks you to be there for sick children, you're there. Period.

Michael Imperioli

They refuse to let the people get what they voted for.

Joey Durel

The park is still going to be noisier than it should be from a business that the FAA seems to want to refuse to regulate. Grand Canyon National Park should be a place where nature prevails, not the almighty dollar.

Rob Smith

I went nuts. I went to the school board and told them they couldn't can't refuse this, we've gone this far.

Tom Owens

It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

The kids just don't get rattled. They like the challenge, to be honest. By playing all those years, they learned how to compete. The competitiveness and tradition at Powers is what carries them. They always think positive, and they have a refuse-to-lose attitude.

Sam Ragnone

As a community, we honor the courage and dignity of those who rise above their injury and refuse to live their life as a victim. Rather, they live as a survivor. Living life this way demonstrates courage and determination and hope each and every day.

Bob Gallagher

[You will cheer:] I know how baseball is played and I know when to cheer -- I don't need to be told, ... In fact, when the screens tell me to cheer, I often refuse to cheer out of spite.

Robert Bailey

Just don't trash-talk then refuse to sign a contract, ... That's disrespectful.

Zab Judah

If you strain body too much it will refuse to accept the challenge.

Colin Croft

We were the first to offer free electronic filing for everyone. We are making people an offer they can't refuse.

Lance Dunn

What we have not seen in any significant numbers is people who refuse.

Charles Steinberg

Those that refuse the covenant, reproach it, or rail against it, ought to be looked at as enemies to it and dealt with accordingly.

George Gillespie

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.

Edward Everett Hale

Make me an offer I can't refuse, and you can have the taco stand.

Carlos Gomez

Maybe it will come today, this afternoon or tomorrow - the deal you can't refuse. Where the players are right, the money is right and the timing is right. So far, it hasn't been perfect.

Al Hummel

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

Jean Paul Sartre

Our lives are shaped by those who love us and by those who refuse to love us.

Sir John Powell

I credit chess with helping to pull me out of depression and affording me a true circle of friends whom refuse to judge me for what they see on the outside.

Bill Chandler

I used to sit on this board and we have trouble when you refuse to seat someone appointed by three elected officials.

Loren Smith

It varies by company. It has to be in the policy. But some companies refuse to insure property if certain dogs are there.

Bob Lotane

My definition of social justice: those who refuse to work deserve to go hungry.

Clayton Cramer

They refuse to pay blackmail to the county. Development rights are just what kneecaps are to the rest of us.

Bruce Baird

I was proud of the way we came back. We could have just said, 'Well, this one's over.' But the way this team has been playing lately and the confidence we have, we refuse to give in.

Casey Blake

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

Brendan Francis

We refuse this resolution, ... and we want to address a very clear message that this resolution will lead to more violence, and the American Congress will hold the responsibility.

Ahmed Qureia

Lack is more of an acceptance of it in your life than a condition...you accept it, and it shows up...you refuse it...it goes away.

Doug Firebaugh

I find it maddening, as a consumer, when I'm calling a company that I pay, like my phone company, my cable company, and they refuse to let me talk to a human.

Paul English

We refuse the establishment of a state only in Gaza. Gaza is part of the occupied areas. A viable Palestinian state to live in peace beside Israel is only a state set up on the 1967 borders.

Ahmed Qurie

They became very rude and abusive to our staff and we took the decision to ... refuse them travel.

Richard Goodfellow

We took it really personally that we played so badly on the Utah trip. We all agreed that we had to play better. We refuse to lose any more games this year.

Julie Briody

There are always going to be people who refuse to leave. We hope they don't turn into casualties.

Mariana Leckner

The business is in the hands of the record companies. But they won't do anything. They refuse to take any substantial chances.

Russ Solomon

We have a lot of character. We just refuse to lose and we just keep fighting. We just have a lot of heart.

Ronald Steele

If she doesn't rebound, we don't rebound. It's almost as if we refuse to rebound.

Bobby Bates

I refuse to see this as a disaster. These are people who can make a deal stick, who can control the bomb-throwers, who can't hide behind excuses. I can't predict what will happen but there is at least a possibility of progress.

Mel Weiss

I refuse to cry, ... This is supposed to be a spoof of a makeover show.

Johnny Hardesty

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

Pliny the Younger

[Cunningham noted the same problem:] The Ivy League elites and East Coast editorial writers, ... simply refuse to believe that to most Americans-most of whom don't have over-priced degrees-faith, family and traditional values are far more important than making friends with France or preserving a deeply flawed government pension program.

Sean Cunningham

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Matthew Prior

Why did you refuse?

Mark Harmon

I've been in Austin since 1986, and I refuse to let anyone else do my hair.

Stephanie Sullivan

If they refuse, in my opinion, Chairman Barnett should remove them. The employees and taxpayers have suffered enough.

Attorney Charles Garnati

The youth were ready for anything and everything. If they had been told unequivocally to refuse, they would have done so without question.

Avidan Weitzman

You cannot refuse to act just because they have not crossed a frontier.

Antonio Guterres

We need affordable health care and they refuse to offer it. The shareholders can expect to see the Teamsters wherever they go.

Harvey Jackson

I told my guys before the game that if this game was ugly it would be in our favor. I am just speechless. I have a bunch of guys in that locker room in there who just refuse to lose. What a great feeling this is.

Greg King

We either have to take it in, or refuse it. If we refuse it, it really only has one other choice, and that's the dog pound. Animal control won't adopt out pit bulls.

Martha Williams

We know about workers [with permits] to work inside Israel, and one day these people [have] their work permit confiscated because they refuse to collaborate with the Israelis.

Bassem Eid

We try to provide most of the cultural and military direction of the world, but we steadfastly refuse to consider the perspectives of those who would live beneath our shadow. I want to illustrate the fact that we are all almost exactly the same, and so the only thing we can and should really fear is the mirror on ourselves.

David Rozgonyi

(It was) another thrilling victory for us. My girls are resilient. They refuse to lose.

Charlie Reppel

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.

Edward G. Bulwer lytton

Actually, we ended up with a real deal, a package that I don't think we would have been able to refuse.

Mel Kahele

I'm a bulldog. I refuse to lose, and I'm always going to compete. I guarantee I'm going to give everything I can.

Jason Place

Like we must do for cases of alcohol, ushers will escalate their response if people refuse.

Cappy Gagnon

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse (The Godfather).

Mario Puzo

Patients refuse to be transferred to hospital all the time - even if they are badly injured. And there is nothing we can do about that. They also have the right to refuse any medical attention.

Oupa Matjie

For a city or person to claim a right of ?exclusivity? smacks of ?elitism? to me. I refuse to believe a surf icon of the past or any city official for that matter, can truly define a magical culture.

Michael Thompson

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Lillian Hellman

We'll wait until preliminary results come in and then insist on a vote recount. If the authorities refuse to do so, we'll campaign to ensure that the election is declared unconstitutional.

Alexander Kozulin

The real questions refuse to be placated. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.

Ingrid Bengis

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery.

Christopher Reeve

Oh, tradition was everything in this one. Our tradition here creates a refuse-to-lose attitude.

Glen Drury

To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice.

Magna Carta

It is uncommon that there is ever really free will ... Ninety-nine out of 100 times, it's not free will. It is very difficult to confirm will, and I am concerned that when an army unit comes at night, no one will refuse to collaborate, out of fear.

Aharon Barak

However, the amount is still limited and insufficient to stop the spread of the disease. Overseas donors also expect local administrations to dole out funds for the TB elimination program, but the administrations refuse because they know foreign donors have already provided funds.

Dr. Elvi Suryati

All that lives will press palms together in prayerful adoration of those who refuse to slaughter and savor meat.

The Tirukural

Canadian working families and their communities are being crushed by a major job-market crisis, and our decision-makers still refuse to admit it exists.

Ken Georgetti

If the vehicle we deliver is not as it was described on the Web site, the customer can refuse delivery. That's our guarantee.

Sam Mustafa

They simply made me an offer that I couldn't refuse. We now have the largest trust practice on the West Coast.

Bruce Ross

They [the park's owners] don't want to discuss anything. They flatly refuse to listen to us.

Don Blatchford

My latest comedy, Bellwether, let me go after everything that bugs me: meetings, Barbie, trendy coffeehouses, those incompetent clerks who refuse to get off the phone to talk to you, and bread pudding.

Connie Willis

If you refuse to talk about already decided cases, the burden sir, is on you.

Chuck Schumer

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

Jack Paar

Grant graciously what you dare not refuse.

George H. Gallup

We refuse to accept the results from these so-called elections. We will not accept (the winners) as representatives of the people and will not allow them to take their positions.

Krishna Sitaula

We refuse to accept forest fires as inevitable, the international experience shows that it is possible to reduce this calamity.

Antonio Costa

We refuse to go into foolish debt to pay for it.

Ted Christman

I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Edward Everett Hale

I refuse to answer on the ground that this might be incriminating.

Ethel Rosenberg

This means more pharmacists will refuse to fill basic birth control prescriptions here. They are promoting unintended pregnancy and in turn encouraging the very practice they detest.

Erin Matson

On one hand we want cheap food, cheap labor - then we refuse to give them a way to be here legally.

Erik Nicholson

I refuse to go out with a man whose ass is smaller than mine.

Elizabeth Perkins

It is difficult for the defense to fathom why the Congressman would be eager to discuss these matters on Oprah, yet he would refuse to swear, in a capital case, that the same information is actually true.

Edward Macmahon

So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.

Eduard Hanslick