I Refuse Quotes

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

Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to read books, and I'm just an unread book. Open me!

Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.

You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site.

Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything - including their own sins.

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed.

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.

People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.

I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

I want the part of you that you refuse to give.

If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.

Ive been told that if I lose weight Id have more work, but I refuse to submit myself to Hollywood standards. To the rest of the world I am slim and I like the way I am.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.

I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.

The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

I have a personality defect where I refuse to see myself as an underdog.

Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.

A person who refuses to give up will always succeed eventually.

to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.

Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.

Sometimes you may feel like you are just about to realize your goal only to fall short. That is no reason to quit. Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.

ِAn offer you can't refuse.

One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept.

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

I refuse to be stereotyped.

Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.

[...]there is no injustice in God. The injustice lies in Christians who possess the gospel and refuse to give their lives to making it known among those who haven't heard.

It's not death if you refuse it... It is if you accept it.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.