(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden’s proposal of marriage:)”[W]hile we perceive … the zeal and love of your mind towards us is not diminished, yet in part we are grieved that we cannot gratify...

A singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn’t her friend, someone who was hers and yet would never be hers. Kestrel looked away from Arin. She swore to herself that she would never...

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

sodoyouthinkyoucouldtrustmetogotothedancetonight?” she blurted before losing her nerve. Viktor and Viveka exchanged a quick glance.Are they considering it? They are! They trust -“No,” they said together. Frankie resisted the urge to spark. Or scream. Or threaten...

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.

…I committed a sin the day I refused you – I discovered metal inside me where my heart should be – forgive me, Love, for acting on principles…

It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path – up or down – meaning it isn’t always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To...

You will not mock me—and you will let me finish. I have owned and lost a kingdom, and I have battled death. I have been through all that, and I will not chase after you...

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

You may bend, but that will not bring your life to an end. Your refusal to give up is the key; your rose flowers blossom from the thorns of life!

Wahrscheinlich kann man vom Nichtwollen seelisch nicht leben; eine Sache nicht tun wollen, das ist auf Dauer kein Lebensinhalt.

It is important to refuse to be intimidated. That refusal must not be based simply on a calculation of the odds of succeeding. At times, in my case, multiple lawsuits and an ethics charge seemed...

Refuse to be isolated. Your accomplishments are patronized by people who would get interest in them. When you don’t get connected, how will you get to know those people?

Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!

I asked her if she’d give me all her love, and she flatly said no. I got excited because while she said she wouldn’t give me all her love, she said nothing about not wanting...

Honor, obey?” Gisbourne shouted, grappling with John. “This is what you call being a good wife?”I stopped. “I never said I’d be a good wife, Guy. Just that I’d marry you.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

At first the creative mind submits to its entry into the symbolic register and gets itself structured like everyone else. Then he balks at a fateful moment which becomes a turning point in the history...

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Nader refused to bring her the feathery dream catcher – her asabikeshiinh – with its willow-web and invisible ‘lady spider’ apparently weaving her spells – an object Bea insisted always hung above her in bed.

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had...

Elegance is refusal.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.