I Refuse Quotes

I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered.

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

I'll rise but I refuse to shine.

Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.

Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views, Life's little cares and little pains refuse? Shall he not rather feel a double share Of mortal woe, when doubly arm'd to bear?

We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a moral circumstance that requires violence.

Money refused loose its brightness.

You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.

To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.

To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle.

I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

Young people refuse to be defined exclusively as consumers rather than as workers, and they reject the notion that the only interests that matter are monetary.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

The routine promotion of condoms through advertising has been stopped by networks who are so hypocritically priggish that they refuse to describe disease control as they promote disease transmission.

Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely.

It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.

Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

Well, I never been to SpainBut I kinda like the musicSay the ladies are insane thereAnd they sure know how to use itThey don't abuse it, never gonna lose itI can't refuse it.

If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.

I refuse to let anybody try to typecast me. It's against my nature. I like to continually do different things.

If it makes you feel better, you can tell me to screw off if you want to refuse anything, but I hope you won't because I really want to show you how to live." - Andrew Parrish

The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.

At the airport if you refuse to be patted down, they arrest you. And what's the first thing they do when they arrest you? They pat you down.

Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation?

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.

But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself.

Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not.

I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.

Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist." "If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree." "I don't think defeatism is honest, " Dad answered. "I refuse to accept that.

A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.

My preference would be to remain in the Senate, ... But you can't say I would refuse to serve in one of those (Cabinet) capacities. It's not the same as vice president.

I refuse to pay a bill I don't owe.

You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of.

If you refuse to be happy until you have no problems or challenges, you will probably never be happy!

Over the last fifteen years, every single person the U.S. has tried to extradite from Sweden has been extradited, and they refuse to provide a guarantee [that won't happen].

A helpful hand is a lesson in sharing and if you have the means why not play your part. Those who refuse your help are foolish, as we all know appreciating the helpful hand is just smart.

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms.

Please don't worry. I will always come for you. I won't let you go until you understand that." "Then I refuse to understand," she said.

I just refuse to date actors. I've done that, and I don't want to do that anymore. It's just the stress of traveling and being away from each other so much.

I refuse to discuss tabloid rumors.

I refuse to let the past find me here.