I Refuse Quotes

The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress.

It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I'm 'bad'.

Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is". I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are.

Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.

People who refuse to open their minds to new strategies seldom become rich.

One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart’s choice.

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.

We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude.

Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are.

If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

I can never refuse anyone who addresses me as Mother.

I refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.

When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.

I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.

Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

Forgiveness is not something that you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself, To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.

The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

You can't always be demanding solidarity from others and then refuse to show it yourself.

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

I've been accused of bad taste, and I'll go down to my grave accused of it and always by the same people, the ones who eat in restaurants that reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.

We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.

The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse

I warn you, I refuse to be an object.

Refuse to let an old person move into your body.

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

I believe that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death.

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.

You will find a common dichotomy in life. Those who don't have vision or determination, and refuse to dream the impossible, are always in the majority.

I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.

I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear.

I call on men and boys everywhere to join us. Violence against women and girls will not be eradicated until all of us - men and boys - refuse to tolerate it.