Quotes of Refusal - somelinesforyou

“ He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay. ”

- Robert Burton

“ It's a regrettable situation, but what are we supposed to do? ”

- Evan Bayh

“ Reason is the life of the law, nay the common law is nothing else but reason. ”

- Sir Edward Coke

“ For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce. ”

- Henry George

“ Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had? ”

- Unknown

“ This is very regrettable. ”

- Colin Powell

“ I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid. ”

- Katharine Hepburn

“ Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ I don't want to think it's true. I'm in a state of denial. ”

- Cal Ripken

“ It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. ”

- Bill Watterson

“ Fat is a way of saying "no" to powerlessness and self-denial. ”

- Susie Orbach

“ I don't want to say, 'This is where Im going to be in five years and Im going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini. ”

- Brooke Burke

“ The worst thing you can do is start slow, or con yourself into thinking that you can take your time getting into a match. The curtain is up so you've got to perform. ”

- Jack Kramer

“ All things are subject to change, and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.). ”

- Unknown

“ Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ You cannot move on, when the prime minister remains in denial. ”

- Charles Kennedy

“ If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. ”

- Jeanette Winterson

“ How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth. ”

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

“ I think all great innovations are built on rejections. ”

- Louis Ferdinand Celine

“ I think all great innovations are built on rejections. ”

- Louise Nevelson

“ Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come. ”

- Lucy Larcom

“ Were it not better to forget Than to remember and regret? ”

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“ Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it. ”

- Unknown

“ One picture is worth 1,000 denials. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Oblivious. In denial. Dangerous. ”

- Nancy Pelosi

“ A civil denial is better than a rude grunt. ”

- Unknown

“ I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized. ”

- John Stuart Mill

“ Hindsight is always zo/20. ”

- Billy Wilder

“ Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover. ”

- Susan Coolidge
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