Refuse Quotes
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Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I refuse to sit on my laurels.
Patricia Cornwell
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The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.
George Ohsawa
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We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.
Freya Stark
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Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.
LL Cool J
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I refuse to make uninspired music.
Ben Harper
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I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down.
Rod Stewart
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I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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Love is many and truth is just, And so we are; Both What we choose, And we refuse.
Edith Tiempo
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Refuse to lose, Refuse to be defeated, Refuse to have regrets.
Nicki Minaj
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Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.
Glenn Frey The Eagles
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Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."
Gautama Buddha
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I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.
Cherrie Moraga
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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.
Albert Einstein
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Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.
Angelique Kidjo
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I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.
Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
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Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.
Margaret Millar
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We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it.
Erwin McManus
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I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
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I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.
Adele