Refuse Quotes
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We cannot transform what we refuse to engage.
Elizabeth Kucinich
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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To ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.
Bette Lord
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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!
Walter Wykes
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Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.
Stephen Fry
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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.
Bradford Cox
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One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.
Seth Godin
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I have a personality defect where I refuse to see myself as an underdog.
Mindy Kaling
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
Thomas Sowell
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I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.
Eric Reid
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Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Claudine Guerin de Tencin
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...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.
Elisabeth Elliot
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Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
Honore de Balzac
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There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The Wyclef Jean music is eclectic music. Wyclef represents music -eclectic music. I've been doing this music since I was a child, and I said I will refuse for anyone to put me into a box.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When you use an excuse for not accomplishing something or not completing a project, you are actually giving power to someone or something outside of yourself. Regardless of what happens today, absolutely refuse to use an excuse to get off the hook.
Bob Proctor
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Some people are quick to challenge others but refuse to look in the mirror and challenge themselves.
Behdad Sami
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I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.
Russell Baker
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I refuse to eat animals because I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings and by the death of other creatures. I refuse to do so, because I suffered so painfully myself that I can feel the pain of others by recalling my own sufferings.
David Sztybel
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I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.
Michael Caine
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I refuse to let past bruises cover the light. It ain't all good, but it's all good enough so I know I'm alright.
Eyedea
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The Universe doesn't know the difference between a dime and a million. If you refuse the dime, the Universe thinks you don't want money, so you collapse your chances.
Stuart Wilde