I Refuse Quotes
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.
I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.
Anytime we drag our past into the future, we have some grieving to do. When we refuse to grieve, we hang on to the weight of life that slows us down and robs us from finding our lives.
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
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.
Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.
Look to see the best in everyone - especially in those who refuse to do the same. Perhaps your kindness will break someone's shell or be a catalyst to change their mind.
Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.
... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.
Sometimes time actually works against you if you refuse to face the relevant issues and explain to the public what is at stake.
One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.
When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!
Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.
Rumpole, you must move with the times." "If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them.
It would be a horrible mistake for black people to say, as some have said, "We don't recognize him..." If you refuse to deal with him (Bush), the resources at his disposal will be given to others.
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.
I refuse to believe that clubbing is how people are supposed to meet to establish relationships on a level for beyond what we consider to be a norm in modern society.
I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.
A woman indeed can't properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered.
We should refuse to get sucked into political camps and insist on pulling the best out of all of them. That's what Jesus did - challenge the worst of each camp and pull out the best of each.
Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal.
Saving habits - in itself an education is now. It reinforces your strengths, teaching you how to refuse, orderly thinking, think before you act and thus expand your mind
I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery.
I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.
You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.
What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?
We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.
people who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risks necessary to make them less helpless - only they don't know it!
Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
If you refuse to change your job (if you don't like it), the only sensible thing you can do is practice loving it every day.
In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.
I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered.
Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.
The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.
A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.
You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.