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Spring had come to Washington. The cherry blossoms were in bloom. Yet the glacial mood of the capital refused to melt. Accusations — Doris Kearns Goodwin

It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act. — Edward Kennedy

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. — Led Zeppelin

Galder tried to shout, but his voice refused to come out. — Terry Pratchett

We were crazy two years ago. Crazy in love. The words haunted my soul and refused to be buried in the darkness anymore. — Elle Casey

MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member. — M.J. Rose

Everything and all of them were being rattled around like peas inside an enormous rattle that was being rattled by a mad giant who refused to stop. — Roald Dahl

Despite my repeated attempts, my hands refused to reach out and wrap themselves around Brasti's throat. The — Sebastien De Castell

Right - but the words refused to pass her lips. It was too late. Lacey could see that. Isabelle — Mary Higgins Clark

They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top. — Joni Mitchell

Because he refused to adopt a defeatist attitude, he overcame the obstacles in his path. — James C. Dobson

Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better. — Winston Graham

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused. — Lance Armstrong

Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes. — Woody Allen

Slave labor," said Hermione, breathing hard through her nose. "That's what made this dinner. Slave labor." And she refused to eat another bite. — J.K. Rowling

She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons. — Brandon Mull

Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused. — Claudia Cardinale

Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. — Joe Orton

To the Winds, Victor was a problem child insofar as he refused to be one. — Vladimir Nabokov

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls. — J.K. Rowling

Much to their annoyance, Calvin refused to answer any of their questions. He remained on the ground, silently bleeding at them. — Brian Cramer

Nothing happened, and time stubbornly refused to pass. — Michel Faber

Brahmin who'd learned the tribal dialects. He refused — Jhumpa Lahiri

There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances. — Gerald Jampolsky

Life again refused to remain lifesized — Salman Rushdie

Aaliyah wanted a reaction out of Malachi, but he refused to give her one. As — Nako

It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population. — Rick Riordan

The problem is not just the wrong ormistake that you did but the correction,/right you refused to do. — Ikechukwu Joseph

He fought for his very survival. If he fought dirty sometimes that does not diminish the fact that he refused to give up. — Nancy Milford

My Scottie refused to go for a walk with a friend of the house, but she would joyously accompany any stranger who drove a car. — Mazo De La Roche

I refused to ask for help. You may call that stubborn, I call it independence. — Shelly Crane

I spoke to ears that refused to hear. — Ronald Reagan

This was a savage whose image refused to blend with that ancient picture of a boy in shorts and a shirt. — William Golding

It's easy to tell who the folks are that don't believe in evolution. They're the ones who have refused to participate in it. — Daniel J. Solove

Kindly and firmly, she refused to sleep with me. Not even a charity fuck. — Julian May

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring. — Zelda Fitzgerald

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die. — Simone De Beauvoir

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges. — Irving Kristol

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model. — Trisha Yearwood

He didn't want to get his hopes up, but he also refused to be a pessimist about this moment. Everything could go either way. — Adam P. Knave

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted. — Walker Percy

You might be a redneck if you have refused to watch the Academy Awards since Smokey and the Bandit was snubbed for best picture. — Jeff Foxworthy

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. — Henry Miller

Small wonder he refused to marry. Why buy a cow when there were udders all around begging to be milked? — George R R Martin

Evolution is scary. However, the thought of going extinct because you refused to change should be more terrifying — Mark Anthony Peterson

I refused then like I do now to let anybody tie me down — Ray Lamontagne

My analyst refused to hear my dreams. This was years ago. — Jeanne Moreau

When the subject has refused allegiance and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished. — Henry David Thoreau

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare. — Mary Renault

The United States, however, refused to recognize copyright for foreign authors until 1891, — Peter Baldwin

All of the jinn had refused to manifest a mattress for him, but the skag lay on the stone floor as though it were a king's bed. — Heather Demetrios

God's wraith is really only the face of love refused. — Peter Kreeft

In certain waya it was easy for others to take advantage of him. He refused to complain about anything. — Paul Auster

she refused to feel what he wanted her to feel. Was — Margaret Atwood

He refused to believe in his own weaknesses, and with her he had not found a weakness to fit himself against. — Michael Ondaatje

You refused to fall in love with anyone else, Dmitri." A whisper with the impact of a gun-shot. "So I had to come back for you ... husband. — Nalini Singh

I refused to love it. He was going to sell it too — Gail Carson Levine

I refused to be less than what I am, and I made them deal with me on my own terms. — Anne Bishop

Your quick 'no' is because I refused to say 'yes' to sex. They say men think with their dicks. I hope you do not run Easton with your - — Avery Aster

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words? — Richard Russo

Since you refused the good grace to die on delivery, Rathain has got a living prince. — Janny Wurts

I would not forget my magic words; they were MELODY GLOUCESTER PEGASUS, but I refused to let them into my mind. — Shirley Jackson

I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard. — Suzi Quatro

It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused. — Richard Pryor

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

I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want to cheat people. — Azzedine Alaia

Their love wanted to fix her, and refused to see that she wasn't broken. — Seanan McGuire

Your son is no gentleman. He refused to have sex with me." Suzy — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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

Leigh [ Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door. — Boy George

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us. — Ovid

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees. — Constantin Brancusi

Since the age of three I have refused God nothing. — Therese Of Lisieux

But how could they be tormenters if Branza refused to be tormented by them? — Margo Lanagan

The one to whom nothing was refused, whose tears were always wiped away by an anxious mother, will not abide being offended.
- De Ira 2.21.6 — Seneca.

And she refused to go to that miserable place he had dragged her to so many times, to hope for a thing that was unchangeable. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Cole, who had kissed me. Cole, who had refused to discuss it afterwards. Okay, fine. I had refused. Cole, who was driving me flipping crazy. — Gena Showalter

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied. — Henry Louis Gates

When it comes to sin, the only one who has a right to condemn others is Jesus. And he refused. — Judah Smith

He had been willing to die because he refused to take a life.
But me, I contemplated shooting everyone. — Amy Tintera

You could spen the rest of your lifewondering why God let you die but refused to bury you — Dylan Saccoccio

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK. — Zaha Hadid

The door refused to open. It said, Five cents, please. — Philip K. Dick

I asked him if he wanted to play music but he refused. He said that the only thing he wanted to hear was the pleasure of my moans. — Shanora Williams

I refused to explain, or even acknowledge, the "problem" as anything other than an artistic one. — Toni Morrison

there would always be stories that refused to stay bound inside books. — Ransom Riggs

Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life. — Paulo Coelho

Some things were not possible in this world. Children did not have two parents who refused to love them. One, maybe, but for pity's sake, not two. — Sue Monk Kidd

Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking. — Teri Garr

I'm annoyed because he assumed I'd have dinner with him, then continued to assume I would even after I refused. It's a normal reaction. — Nora Roberts

Even though I was growing up in a land that had been tormented since the dawn of time, I refused to consider the world as a battlefield. — Yasmina Khadra

I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course. — Jean Paul Gaultier

I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium. — Jeffrey Tate

When Germany declared itself ready to discuss an armistice, Wilson refused to negotiate until the Kaiser abdicated. — Henry Kissinger

It is as if people refused to leave their dead alone, forced them back into the light, made them keep their composure even in death. — Bernhard Schlink

The first great skeptic of American exceptionalism, he refused to believe that the country was exempt from the sober lessons of history. — Ron Chernow

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did. — Kurt Vonnegut

I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody. — Pete Seeger