Refuse Quotes
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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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I've never said anything disparaging about Wally Backman and I refuse to do so now.
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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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Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed...
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The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
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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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The good-byes you refuse to say must be the hardest of all.
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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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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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All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.
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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.
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As soon as we get comfortable in one role, we have to take on another! Why? ... Because he wants to keep us off balance! That's why! Because he doesn't want us to THINK! He doesn't want us to QUESTION HIS AUTHORITY! So he keeps us busy! Keeps us running in circles! Like mice! Rushing from one role to the next! Well, I'm on to his game! I see what he's doing! And I refuse to participate!
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Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.
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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.
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I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.
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It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.
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We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
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I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.
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I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
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I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
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We cannot transform what we refuse to engage.
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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 put myself into a situation in which I have to face some kind of "I'm losing it" kind of thing. I'm not "losing it"; it's changed. What it is is changing.
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Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
