I Refuse Quotes

What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my relationships with those who love me or refuse to love me, with those whom I love or refuse to love.

I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place.

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.

Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

No matter how often I tell people I'm thirty-nine some of them refuse to believe I'm that old.

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?

The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.

Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.

Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things and always apologize when you've done something wrong but don't you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining.

I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures.

I believe if I refuse to grow old, I can stay young 'til I die.

Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear

I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.

America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant, religious fanatics who land here and abuse the Indians.

What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.

We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.

Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.

Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.

God gives salvation to the needy, but gives the deep things of His heart to the hungry who refuse to live without them.

Lord, if your people need me, I will not refuse the work. Your will be done.

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.

Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

Success in life comes to those who simply refuse to give up; individuals with vision so strong that obstacles, failure and loss only act as teachings

You cannot change what you refuse to confront.

And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.

People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change

Each time a swarm of worries invades your mind, refuse to be affected; wait calmly, while seeking the remedy. Spray the worries with the powerful chemical of your peace.

I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of God.