Refused Quotes

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

I refused to take no for an answer.

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.

If the sun refused to shine, I'd still be loving you. If mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me.

The stone that the builder refused, will always be the head cornerstone.

The archdiocesan review board advised the archdiocese to remove Father McCormack from his parish, and the archdiocese refused to follow the advice.

There was a lot of stones what the builders refused. I think I was one of the stones what many builders did refuse.

I was especially proud of the fact that they refused to lose. Different players stepped up for us all day long. The timely hitting that we had yesterday continued today.

The choppers started sinking in the mud, so they had to work fast. The Taiwanese refused to leave without the body and were dragging it with them.

When she refused, the man allegedly slapped her and thereafter raped her.

Racial discrimination reared its ugly head. Landlords refused to show their properties to minorities.

We applaud those in Congress who have refused to let drilling proponents manipulate them and the democratic process. Although there are some still willing to do Big Oil?s bidding, the drilling lobby and their allies will be hard-pressed to keep Arctic drilling in the budget knowing that it is dead on arrival in the House.

[Six other people who refused to be taken from a bridge] felt this thing was an act of God and it was OK to just sit there and die, ... They were in God's hands.

The Minner administration and Stan Taylor have refused to lead, defending prison conditions and claiming it is not even a crisis, ... We are disgusted at this lack of action.

I assume those numbers are correct, because the governor was asked twice tonight to respond to those statistics and refused to challenge them. That is a record on health care that the American people should know about.

That was unacceptable. We just refused to shoot the puck.

[So the parish refused to take the money, said Dan Morgan, its secretary and treasurer.] We knew we weren't entitled to it, ... We did our best to stop it before they cut the check.

[David Whitehead refused to leave his home in the path of the raging southeast Texas blaze.] I had to stay and help, ... I couldn't leave my house.

Cheney's appearance is especially galling a week after this administration refused to back up its own International Trade Commission ruling that China is dumping steel pipe products into the U.S., threatening the jobs of thousands of American steelworkers.

I had final cut, they wanted me to re-edit it, I refused.

We were stopped at the entrance by the security guard who refused to grant us access, refused to cooperate with us, refused to take the stop order personally.

They have already refused to sign and they are un likely to participate.

[The six-month extension] is the best outcome we could possibly imagine. The Senate stood firm, and they refused to be bullied into accepting a law that was not good for America.

We think their behavior is outrageous for normal business commerce. Essentially they have refused to negotiate with us.

The Holy Father has acted as the Vicar of Christ and acted like Christ himself, who never refused to talk to anyone.