I Refuse Quotes
Its no secret that the Democrats and liberal media would love to take away our guns and mandate every aspect of our lives, but I refuse to let them get away with that.
Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.
Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?
There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.
When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.
The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.
If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.
I can't function without coffee and I cannot refuse chocolate. Drink I gave up years ago and don't miss it in the slightest. But I think I'd collapse without coffee.
In 35 yrs of leading I've been afraid at every major step but I DID IT ANYWAY since I REFUSE let fear run my life.
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.
It's easy to live in a fantasy world, and that's why I refuse to live in an isolated environment.
He that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there.
The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.
You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them, sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success
Could you achieve the possible without trying? Could you achieve the impossible if you refuse to stop trying?
I have always been "Hacky Wacky" which is my lingo for HAPPY! I refuse to allow my obesity to control me.
If you're going to offer a position of great power and importance to somebody, you're not gonna do that publicly unless you know they're gonna accept it, because to refuse it is a rebuke.
The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse of contempt, or the omissions of negligence.
Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
Without a specific reason for the consumer to behave, without a reward or benefit, the overwhelmed consumer will refuse.
Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong.
Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.
Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.
If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.
Despite the immense challenges that we have faced and continue to face, we refuse to indulge in negativity or pessimism. We are an organization that believes in empowering people to be their best.
I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be the last book I see for months.
I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.
We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation
I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to.
If you were not full of self-pity you would soon observe that we ourselves are to blame for all this evil, because we refuse to understand that it is in reality a good thing.
It is wrong to take half or more of what people earn; wrong to force some people to pay for the support of others, threatening them with jail if they refuse (are in "noncompliance").
I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for Poe.
I was conscripted to military service, and my gut feeling was to refuse to serve. I did not want to kill other people. This seemed to me wrong, if not in principle, so at least in practice.
There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.