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.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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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.
Blaise Pascal -
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions.
Norman Vincent Peale -
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 -
I refuse to be pushed around anymore.
Loretta Lynn -
Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
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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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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The good-byes you refuse to say must be the hardest of all.
Craig Lancaster -
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.
Anthony of Sourozh -
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.
Lois McMaster -
If you would live in victory . . . you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt.
Amy Carmichael
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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 -
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.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall -
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
Seneca the Younger -
I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.
Anne Douglas Sedgwick -
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
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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.
Seneca the Younger -
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
Henry Ward Beecher -
It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.
Karen Marie Moning -
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