I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the… — Darlene Cates Copy Share Image
Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as… — George Trumbull Ladd Copy Share Image
No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not… — Wendy McElroy Copy Share Image
The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Psychosynthesis is a method of psychological development and self realization for those who refuse to remain the slave of their own inner… — Roberto Assagioli Copy Share Image
People are starving for love, not knowing their heart is a magical kitchen. Open your heart. Open your magical kitchen and refuse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To everyone in this Congress who still refuses to raise the minimum wage, I say this: If you truly believe you could… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The fact that I don't get big offers, it means that I don't refuse them. And I say no occasionally to bands,… — Gordon Raphael Copy Share Image
"No" is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
Every day President Bush and Congress refuse to fulfill their obligation to special ed is another day Wisconsin property taxpayers are stuck… — Jim Doyle Copy Share Image
The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I know labs where women refuse to make a coffee for others because they don't want to be seen doing seemingly female… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Isn’t it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn’t. I did it so I’d have a reason to be around you —… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
My preference would be to remain in the Senate, ... But you can't say I would refuse to serve in one of… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It’s not just about Jen,” he said. “It’s about the entire romantic system. Ninety-nine percent of men are in love with the… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the best songs are being written by the very under-stated, under-appreciated indie artists. The thing that separates them from mainstream… — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things and always apologize when you've done something wrong but don't… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
