quotes about Refuse
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Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.
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Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.
-- Albert Camus -
If you would live in victory . . . you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt.
-- Amy CarmichaelSource : Amy Carmichael, David Hazard (2005). “I Come Quietly to Meet You: An Intimate Journey in God's Presence”, p.25, Bethany House
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I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.
-- Amy GrantSource : Song: Children Of The World, Album: House of Love, 1994
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I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
-- Barry ZitoSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.
-- Ben Stein -
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The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
-- Bernard DeVoto -
Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.
-- Brian Tracy -
Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.
-- Brian Tracy -
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
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Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.
-- C. J. Mahaney -
We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.
-- Chris Chocola -
It's your way of fighting. You refuse to engage and then you can't lose.
-- Christine Feehan -
I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?
-- Cyndi LauperSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and making itself known when we least expect it.
-- Debbie FordSource : Debbie Ford (2011). “Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming your power, creativity, brilliance, and dreams”, p.26, Hachette UK
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I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.
-- Desmond Tutu -
Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words..
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
I refuse to go back to not liking who I was.
-- Donald Glover -
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A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.
-- Doris Day -
I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
-- Edward Everett Hale -
Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.
-- Elfriede JelinekSource : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.83, Profile Books
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We cannot transform what we refuse to engage
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I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
-- Ella Maillart -
I want the part of you that you refuse to give.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.
-- Evel Knievel -
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I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.
-- Frank GehrySource : "The way we live now. Questions for Frank Gehry; Towering Vision". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. January 5, 2003.
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Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relationship being over just when it was on the verge of really taking off.
-- Freya North -
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Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.
-- Gao Xingjian -
I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.
-- George Washington -
To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
-- Gillian Flynn -
He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
-- Hillel the Elder -
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The real questions refuse to be placated. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.
-- Ingrid BengisSource : Ingrid Bengis (1973). “COMBAT IN THE EROGENOUS ZONE”
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I refuse to let anybody try to typecast me. It's against my nature. I like to continually do different things.
-- Irene CaraSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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When the South has trouble with its Negroes when the Negroes refuse to remain in their "place" it blames "outside agitators" and "Northern interference." When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin.
-- James A. Baldwin -
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Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.
-- Jane Fonda -
If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.
-- Jennifer Granholm -
I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.
-- Joan of Arc -
Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.
-- John C. Sawhill -
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Rumpole, you must move with the times." "If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them.
-- John MortimerSource : John Mortimer (2007). “Rumpole Misbehaves”, p.68, Penguin
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You cannot change what you refuse to confront.
-- John Spence -
I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
If you refuse to be happy until you have no problems or challenges, you will probably never be happy!
-- Joyce Meyer -
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Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us....
-- Karl A. Menninger -
I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
-- Kathryn Bigelow -
I refuse to do anything easy. I'm writing for the smartest person out there. I'm not equating myself with the smartest person out there, but hopefully I'm writing to say you're not alone. I'm not alone. We're not alone.
-- Larry GelbartSource : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.
-- Laurence Overmire -
I refuse to let the past find me here.
-- Libba BraySource : Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.36, Simon and Schuster
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I refuse to put make-up on just because the paparazzi are on my doorstep. I find it morally wrong.
-- Lily Allen -
You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.
-- Loretta Chase -
This was too much. "I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion.
-- Louise FitzhughSource : Louise Fitzhugh (2009). “Harriet the Spy”, p.137, Yearling
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But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.
-- M. F. K. Fisher -
This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
-- Margaret Atwood -
You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you
-- Margaret Atwood -
You cannot fix a problem that you refuse to acknowledge.
-- Margaret HeffernanSource : Margaret Heffernan (2011). “Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious”, p.97, Simon and Schuster
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I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.
-- Markus Zusak -
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
-- Marlon Brando -
We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.
-- Mary AntinSource : Mary Antin (1914). “They who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration”
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A woman indeed can't properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered.
-- Mary AstellSource : 1706 Some Reflections upon Marriage Occasion'd by the Duke and Duchess of Mazarine's Case which is also consider'd, preface (1706 edn).
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If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
Part of the beauty of love was that you didn’t need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain. With love, apparently you didn’t necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.
-- Meg WolitzerSource : Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings: A Novel”, p.52, Penguin
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She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful.
-- Michael SilverblattSource : "SUSAN SONTAG / 1933-2004 / Indomitable critic silenced by cancer" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. December 29, 2004.
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I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.
-- Monique WittigSource : Monique Wittig (2007). “Les Guerilleres”, p.88, University of Illinois Press
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Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.
-- Nick Vujicic -
Refuse to let your circumstances make you bitter. Do what you must to make them better.
-- Nicole Kidman -
In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.
-- Nicole Krauss -
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Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.
-- Otto Rank -
Refuse to write your life and you have no life.
-- Patricia Hampl -
I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.
-- Pier Paolo Pasolini -
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If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.
-- Publilius Syrus -
To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
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Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear
-- Ray LaMontagneSource : Song: Hold You In My Arms, Album: Trouble, 2004
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I can never refuse anyone who addresses me as Mother.
-- Sarada Devi -
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The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.
-- Shane Claiborne -
You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.
-- Shannon Hale -
The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
-- Simon Wiesenthal -
Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj -
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You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.
-- Stephen A. Smith -
Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.
-- Stephen Fry -
Everyone including YOU suffers when you refuse to BE all & DO all you can.
-- Tara Fela-Durotoye -
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If I’m told I have to marry same sex couples I will refuse.
-- Todd Starnes -
Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.
-- Townsend Harris -
All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am.
-- W. H. Auden -
I refuse putting from me the best that I am.
-- Walt Whitman -