Refuse Quotes
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To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.
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Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
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One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next day.
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If you would live in victory . . . you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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I refuse to be pushed around anymore.
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Being the Republican front-runner was three of the most exciting hours of my entire life. I've come to grips with it, and the only lasting effect is that I refuse to go on a stage that has more than one podium on it.
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If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.
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Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.
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I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
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My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a daughter who refuses to launder aluminium foil and use it over again.
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The good-byes you refuse to say must be the hardest of all.
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Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free.
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All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
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I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.
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Humility is the situation of the earth. It's there silent and accepting everything and in a miraculous way making out of all the refuse new richness...transforming corruption itself into a power of life and a new possibility of creativeness, open to the sunshine, open to the rain, ready to receive any seed we sow and capable of bringing thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold out of every seed.
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Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'
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We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
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Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.
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If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
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I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
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I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.
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But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.
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If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
