Refuse Quotes
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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.
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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.
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So this estate is given each of us to determine whether or not we will merit glory and honor "for ever and ever," or whether we will rebel and refuse or be indifferent and not comply with the conditions and the laws and the ordinances provided by a merciful Father for our guidance through life and our protection and our salvation and thereby, by so doing, deny ourselves the fabulous gift and blessing of eternal life. This life, then, is a time of "sifting," a time when the "wheat" is separated from the "chaff," a time of deciding who is who and where we will live after we die.
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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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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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It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
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Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
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What keeps a good face is no stress, and I refuse to worry.
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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.
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I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.
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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.
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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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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?
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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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I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.
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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.
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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 way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
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We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
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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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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.
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Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.
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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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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.
