Refuse Quotes · Page 25

I get many scripts and films, but I refuse most of them because I have done such roles before.

— Raveena Tandon

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

— Nicolas Chamfort

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

— Helen Hayes

I refuse to try and be with someone who's caught up on an old love, no rebounds over here.

— Anonymous

I am tired of hotels promising to go the extra mile only to have them refuse to go round the corner!

— Richard Quest

... we're moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept.

— Douglas Rushkoff

Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.

— Ovid

Hume's paradox does hold: power is in the hands of the governed. If they refuse to accept it, you're in trouble, no…

— Noam Chomsky

I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought…

— Anne Bronte

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce…

— Gustave Flaubert

Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too…

— Walter Abish

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

— Gail Sheehy

The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has…

— Walt Whitman

Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged…

— Sylvia Plath

People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be…

— Anonymous

We practice conscious forgetting by refusing to summon up the fiery material, we refuse to recollect. To forget is an active, not…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“It's hard for an educated woman to turn her head off. That's part of the joy of being a submissive. None of…

— Cherise Sinclair

I will continue to fight for legislation that forces Congress to read the bills! I will fight for a vote on my…

— Rand Paul

The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The conduct of a man, who studies philosophy in this careless manner, is more truly sceptical than that of any one, who…

— David Hume

Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all…

— Jacques Chirac

I've always found that one of the biggest benefits of being a girl is that most people refuse to take you seriously.…

— Kirsten Miller

Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be...…

— Thomas Chalmers

I love the underdog stories. I love people who refuse to give up.

— Phil Keoghan

If you ever look sideways at another man or attempt to refuse me I shall beat you. Got it?

— Margaret Way

Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to…

— Sharon Shinn

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

— Stendhal

You can't always be demanding solidarity from others and then refuse to show it yourself.

— Martin Schulz

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

— Kanye West

Every inch of ground we refuse to take with God, we surrender to the enemy.

— Beth Moore

Refuse to seek for the road to paradise, because every beautiful place is already a paradise!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

One of the greatest failures of every generation is that it refuses to read the minutes of the last meeting.

— David A. Noebel

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

— Anonymous

Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life.

— Patti Hansen

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

— Lord Chesterfield

When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to…

— George Iles

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

— Miuccia Prada

I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.

— Barack Obama

God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way.

— Max Lucado