I Refuse Quotes

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

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting, it's about being so prepared to face a challenge and believing so strongly in a cause that you are fighting for that you refuse to quit.

When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach

Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that.

I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.

A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you.

You refuse to forgive people, and yet on the Day of Judgment you will stand bare, begging Allah to forgive you.

Everyone including YOU suffers when you refuse to BE all & DO all you can.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

The Universe doesn't know the difference between a dime and a million. If you refuse the dime, the Universe thinks you don't want money, so you collapse your chances.

... the next revolution ... will be when those who work refuse to support those who don't.

Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.

I refuse to be beaten in any way shape or form, so I'm gonna beat this too.

(Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

[Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests.

You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.

The most dangerous thing for an actor is to refuse to listen to anyone else, to feel you know more than anybody.

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.

I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.

The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to invade your body and mind, then simply refuse it entry.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open.

We hear the word Warrior used to describe women and men who show up, give their very best, and refuse to quit until the goal is reached.

I refuse to adapt or integrate myself.

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

I don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger.

The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave.

I'm going to quit music. Then the government of Japan asked me to write a piano concerto - that was an offer I couldn't refuse, so that brought me back to music again.

We shouldn't deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

Influencers refuse to leave the world they way they found it. They leave a legacy.

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

Refuse to be average.

Mercy is like the rainbow, which God hath set in the clouds; it never shines after it is night. If we refuse mercy here, we shall have justice in eternity.

When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.

I appeal to all men and women, whether they be eminent or humble, to declare that they will refuse to give any further assistance to war or the preparation of war.