Refuse Quotes
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I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels.
Michael Eric Dyson
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We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?
Mother Teresa
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
Seneca the Younger
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The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Knowing full well that I looked like something any self-respecting cat would refuse to drag in.
Nancy Atherton
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How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors.
Plato
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I know labs where women refuse to make a coffee for others because they don't want to be seen doing seemingly female things. I think this is stupid. Why not make a coffee, bring a cake? I do it.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
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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.
Rick Perry
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I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.
Nicole Kidman
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Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.
Amy Lee Evanescence
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The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
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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.'
Wendy McElroy
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It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
Blaise Pascal
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What keeps a good face is no stress, and I refuse to worry.
Leo Sayer
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I have little compassion for people in trailer parks who refuse to move after getting tornado warnings. How hard is it for them to relocate? Their houses have wheels.
Carlos Mencia
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I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.
William S. Burroughs
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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.
M. F. K. Fisher
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The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
Flannery O'Connor
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Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear
Ray LaMontagne
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We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
Brennan Manning
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if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.
Jane Austen