Refuse Quotes · Page 28

I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear.

— Robert Breault

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

— Herbert Marcuse

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.

— Chris Chocola

“We deny our weaknesses because we refuse to take responsibility for failures.”

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

— Ralph Ellison

“Though they have not the capacity to reply, I refuse to believe that our pets have no comprehension”

— Robert Masello

“You must refuse to succumb to every ungodliness and injustice.”

— Sunday Adelaja

To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I can play a cat lady. I can't put my foot down and refuse to play anything but playing the perfect, well-adjusted…

— Sarah Baker

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of…

— Gore Vidal

I've been married five times, and people think that's some bizarre thing, yet I've got buddies who refuse to get married and…

— Billy Bob Thornton

Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same…

— Epictetus

It is over, the Reich walls have collapsed, my generals have betrayed me and my army refuses to fight, this is the…

— Adolf Hitler

It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open.

— Henry Giroux

I believe that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who…

— John H. Johnson

Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that…

— James Anthony Froude

The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia…

— Anonymous

Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if…

— C. S. Lewis

All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal……

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where…

— Alex Kozinski

“When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is about. Castrating women are those…

— Marilyn French

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To…

— Isaac Asimov

In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possibilities of our remarkable…

— Anonymous

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

— Blaise Pascal

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

— Aaron Swartz

I refuse to do Snapchat. I'm not getting it, and I kind of like having mystery.

— Rozonda Thomas

I will be strong with you but I refuse to be strong for you.

— Anonymous

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

— Bernard DeVoto

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

— Bill Johnson

Those who refuse to change and to modify are refusing to be recipients of the anointing.

— Dag Heward-Mills

One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.

— Seth Godin

Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions.

— Kathleen Sebelius

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

— Honore de Balzac

It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

— Blaise Pascal

But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself.

— Jim Carrey

God gives salvation to the needy, but gives the deep things of His heart to the hungry who refuse to live without…

— Mike Bickle

What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.

— Mary Antin

I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past

— Christopher Paolini

Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

— John Milton