I Refuse Quotes

Do what others refuse to do.

Make bold moves toward your dreams each day, refuse to stop and nothing can stop you.

I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well.

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

I refuse to charge for my karate classes, I refuse to charge for Q&A panels, and when people come to my table, if you have money, great, but if you don't, who cares?

To rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection.

I refuse to this day to do e-mail because everybody I know that does it, it takes another two or three hours a day. I don't want to give two or three more hours away.

If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.

Make an offer they can't refuse.

Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.

The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.

If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and errors.

Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

I don't really have any "must work withs," but I would never refuse if a celebrity or fellow musician came along who is willing to write or sing or play on a Lita song.

I refuse to be pushed around anymore.

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.

But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

I refuse to live a conventional life.

We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies.

I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.

Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.

Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.

An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one, but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged, we cannot be discouraged.

I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.

She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful.

I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.

In Calcutta alone, we have given more than 1,000 children in adoption. I cannot calculate how many babies we get a year. But we never refuse anybody. Everybody is most welcome.

We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.

In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.

I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely dogmatic in tone.

I remember saying to my husband, ''Why? Why have you got this lady around?'' And he said, ''Well, I refuse to be the Prince of Wales who never had a mistress.''

It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.

Everybody's got whatever problems they have. I refuse to let somebody's mistaken beliefs affect my life.

If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.

I refuse to believe that the processed beauty that I see around me is what I have to be.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people.

To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you.

I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so.

Let the dream unroll itself to its very end. You cannot help it. But you can look at the dream as a dream, refuse it the stamp of reality.

Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this.