Refuse Quotes
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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 -
One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.
Claudine Guerin de Tencin
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To ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.
Bette Lord -
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
Honore de Balzac -
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 -
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 -
Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view. When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn't cause suffering.
Ajahn Chah
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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 -
Some people are quick to challenge others but refuse to look in the mirror and challenge themselves.
Behdad Sami -
...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 -
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 -
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 -
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 be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.
Eric Reid -
My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a daughter who refuses to launder aluminium foil and use it over again.
Erma Bombeck -
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Claudine Guerin de Tencin -
Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.
James Cook -
Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.
Sandra Bernhard -
Refuse to be scared in this lifetime.
Stuart Wilde
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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 -
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.
Michael Caine -
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 -
Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.
Stephen Fry