I Refuse Quotes

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

I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.

One of the things I really want is for people to feel the civic responsibility, and not just refuse to vote out of protest.

Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result.

I refuse to accept anything less than 100% of what I can achieve.

It's your way of fighting. You refuse to engage and then you can't lose.

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.

No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.

I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.

I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war.

Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees.

The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.

Every now and then I will play; I try to focus on charitable work. I might do it because it's an offer I can't refuse, so I rally and try to stay in shape and keep myself active.

Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.

There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent.

I admire vegetarians who refuse to eat nothing but vegetables in their homes, but I also admire those who put aside those principles or those preferences when they travel. Just to be a good guest.

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

I just refuse to listen to any more lies. You hear them from FEMA, you hear them from Red Cross and I just didn't want to hear it from him.

I refuse to apologize for my ability -- I refuse to apologize for my success -- I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it.

I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.

I refuse to give in to the notion that the American people can't handle complicated information.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

Some people are quick to challenge others but refuse to look in the mirror and challenge themselves.

The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.

People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.

I refuse to put myself into a situation in which I have to face some kind of "I'm losing it" kind of thing. I'm not "losing it"; it's changed. What it is is changing.

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

I refuse to grow up. I won't become the adult guy.

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

If you refuse to see Superman Returns this summer, what you're saying about yourself is: I heart Al Qaeda.

I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past

My definition of social justice: those who refuse to work deserve to go hungry.

Only a government that does not trust its citizens would refuse them the right to bear arms.

Wake up in the morning and say, 'I refuse to be a hack,' and see what happens by the end of the day.

I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants [...] Fear implies respect.

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture.

Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.

Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!

There are at least 23 countries that refuse to take their people back after they've been ordered to leave the United States. Including large numbers of violent criminals, they won't take them back.

... we're moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept.

Nature's beauty never fails to fill me with a sense of wonder and awe, and still, I refuse to go camping.

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has.

It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism.

When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.

When you refuse to fight guys because you say you are better than them, that is not really being the best. If I could just fight certain fighters that fit my style, I would look great in all of them.

Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.

Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relationship being over just when it was on the verge of really taking off.