If you refuse to see Superman Returns this summer, what you're saying about yourself is: I heart Al Qaeda.
For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography.
I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.
Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to use the language that was spoken during the period, for I refuse to whitewash history. The language was painful and life was painful for many African Americans, including my family. I remember the pain.
The present day composer refuses to die.
What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.
I refuse to be pushed around anymore.
Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.
In terms of America, I think any profound consideration is bound to return us to the notion of twins because, though you certainly can contend there are many Americas, our history has been binary from the beginning, with its hairline fracture down the country's center between what American has wanted to be and what America has been. That fracture is slavery, of course. To some extent it's still slavery, in that collectively we refuse to come to grips with the American fact of slavery.
Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.
If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.
It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.
Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.
When a cause comes along and you know in your bones that it is just, yet refuse to defend it--at that moment you begin to die. And I have never seen so many corpses walking around talking about justice.
Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.