Refuse Quotes
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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 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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...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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To ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.
Bette Lord
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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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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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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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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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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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I have a personality defect where I refuse to see myself as an underdog.
Mindy Kaling
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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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Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
Honore de Balzac
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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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I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.
Eric Reid
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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 have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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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Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.
James Cook
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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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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 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
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I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.
Michael Caine
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If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is free to drop connection with the state-to relinquish its protection, and to refuse paying toward its support.
Herbert Spencer