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“I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for as I told the Mayor, "How could I refuse?" I'd rather be Poet Laureate of San Francisco than anywhere because this city has always been a poetic center, a frontier for free poetic life, with perhaps more poets and more poetry readers than any city in the world.”

World Left Sides Cities Accepting Poet Reader Refuse Poetic San Francisco Frontiers Mayors Cities In The World

Book:San Francisco Poems

Source: San Francisco Poems

“Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which I am about to conduct, let him not refuse his services to the state, but come with me into Macedonia. I will furnish him with his sea-passage, with a horse, a tent, and even travel-funds. If anyone is reluctant to do this and prefers the leisure of the city to the hardships of campaigning, let him not steer the ship from on shore.”

Ifs States Cities Sea Advantage Horse Refuse Campaigns Ships Fund Hardship Shore Passages Leisure Advise Reluctant Steers Tents Campaigning Macedonia

Author:Livy

“I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.”

Remember Childhood Fine Our Children Refuse Weather Sundials Fine Weather

Book:Enthusiasms

Source: Enthusiasms

“We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our own ideas to the best advantage. Why, then, do we so often refuse to perform this service?”

Knows Ideas Listening Advantage Intelligent Refuse Vanity Listeners Sympathetic

Author:Thomas F. Wilson

“Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.”

Truth Brain Accepting Refuse Being True Unlikely Improbable

Book:How German Is It

Source: How German Is It

“Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough.”

Persons Sometimes Enough Effort Accepting Performances Refuse Servant Good Enough Servant Leadership

Book:Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness

Source: Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness

“Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.”

Culture Reader Tradition Criticism Refuse Permit Depressing Piety Modernism Canon Culture Religion

Author:Leslie Fiedler

“I refuse to this day to do e-mail because everybody I know that does it, it takes another two or three hours a day. I don't want to give two or three more hours away.”

Knows Want Giving Doe Two Three Hours Comedy Refuse This Day Mail

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.”

World Kind Country Facts Happens Film Young Lost Loses Accepting Focus Generations Happened Particular Crisis Lifetime Refuse France Makers

Author:David Puttnam

“Many people are never happier than when they get the opportunity to complain, while others are deeply unhappy with how things are but just accept the fact. Complaint occurs when we refuse to accept that things are wrong and we do something about it, even if that something is simply articulating our unease.”

People Ifs Facts Opportunity Accepting Refuse Complaining Unhappy Complaints Articulating

Author:Julian Baggini

“The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.”

Men Born Deals Common Secret Millions Teaching Theory Property Climate Various Refuse Doctrine Anthropology Geology Esoteric

Book:The Secret Doctrine

Source: The Secret Doctrine

“I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.”

People Giving Believe Stories I Believe Sin Refuse Versions Rejects Believe In God

Author:Rob Bell

“The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.”

Use Technology Economy Demand Limits Refuse Oil Despite Fuel Transportation Fuel Economy

Author:Sherwood Boehlert

“We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.”

Nations Challenges Solutions Refuse

Author:Chris Chocola

“In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.”

Has Beens Action Church Refuse Believer Core Punishment Officials Target Altered

Author:Salvatore J. Cordileone

“With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future.”

World Accepting Support Generations Citizens Refuse Expenses Future Generation Inaction

Author:Diana DeGette

“In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.”

Kind Facts Nations Support Research Refuse Cells Stem Stem Cell Stem Cell Research Embryonic Stem Cell Research Embryonic Stem Cells

Author:Nathan Deal

“I refuse to be silenced.”

Author:Al Goldstein

“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.”

Ifs May Spirit Successful Poet Refuse Composition Epic

Author:Lascelles Abercrombie

“I refuse to put make-up on just because the paparazzi are on my doorstep. I find it morally wrong.”

Refuse Paparazzi Doorstep

Author:Lily Allen

“It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.”

Law Order Losing Refuse Propositions Smugglers

Author:Glenn Frey

“I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity .... and the greater part of the English are the very refuse of society.”

Believe I Believe Greater Simplicity Refuse Glad Pleasant Charming Absent New Zealand

Book:Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle: Between the Years 1826 and 1836 ...

Source: Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle: Between the Years 1826 and 1836 ...

“My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.”

Religion Religious My Friends Refuse Cynical Keep The Faith

Author:Robbie Williams

“There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.”

Feelings Interesting Views Perspective Everyday Refuse Point Of View Everyday Life

Author:Fred Frith

“We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.”

Giving Believe School Leader Doors Taxes Europe Green Conservative Refuse Continuing Eastern Grammar Migration Eastern Europe Referendums Grammar School

Author:Nigel Farage

“I refuse to make uninspired music.”

Refuse Uninspired

Author:Ben Harper

“Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.”

Nations Refuse Intercourse Excluded

Author:Townsend Harris

“How do I love Tim McGraw? Let me count the ways: I love that he's a country boy with a city sensibility. I love that he refuses to be pegged, and his duet with Nelly proves it. And I really love that he had the brains to marry Faith Hill.”

Way Country Cities Brain Boys Prove Let Me Refuse Hills Sensibility Prove It Duets Country Boy

Author:Gayle King

“In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.”

People Littles Book Able Written Drink Refuse Quotations

Book:Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell

Source: Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell

“I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.”

Believe Philosophy Dies Refuse

Author:Amy Grant