Refuse Quotes
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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 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
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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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Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
Honore de Balzac
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To ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.
Bette Lord
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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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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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I have a personality defect where I refuse to see myself as an underdog.
Mindy Kaling
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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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...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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Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.
Stephen Fry
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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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I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.
Eric Reid
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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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 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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I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.
Michael Caine