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“You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid…. You refuse...

Quote by Martin Luther King Jr. about fight, old, olderness, principle, chance, home, house, death, spirit, day

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about work, time, poets, spirit

The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.

Quote by Victoria Abril about clothes, things

The United States and our allies are determined: we...

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

Quote by George W. Bush about shadow, danger

I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning...

I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.

Quote by Michael Caine about work

I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.

I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.

Quote by Michael Caine about things

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Quote by Albert Camus about people, man

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

Quote by Jane Austen about woman, marriage, man

There were some films I refused because the feminist...

There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky.

Quote by Julie Christie

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to...

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Quote by Winston Churchill

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but...

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about criminals, man, nothing

This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.

Quote by Laurent Fabius

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about nation, earth, wisdom, god

When it’s time to leave for the airport to your first EOT, and all your pards are waiting in the is car, that’s the time the safe will refuse to open and the only safe/lock smith within 50 miles is on vacation and your CAS friend, Yellow Dog Tick,...

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cowboys, time

I joined the army as a private, I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.

Quote by Shimon Peres about time

I will never refuse to do something that I can do.

I will never refuse to do something that I can do.

Quote by Edward Everett about attitude

Whenever they gave me another alternative world, often better, I refused. Who can escape the hell in their own nothingness others? After no escape from their own disillusionment. So I got to my building from ruin, my own world.

Quote by Gabriel Petru Baetan about world, hell

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