Refuse Quotes · Page 9

“And I flat out refuse to have one of those lives that I wouldn’t even want to read about.”

— Sonya Sones

I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.

— Eric Reid

“At times the best thing you can do for someone is to refuse to help them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

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

Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

People who are willing to get off their a** to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to…

— Anonymous

I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world; I do…

— Walt Whitman

They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse…

— Giacomo Casanova

How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It would be a horrible mistake for black people to say, as some have said, "We don't recognize him..." If you refuse…

— Charles E. Blake

We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a…

— Dylan Thomas

What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse?…

— Jeremy Bentham

I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it…

— George Takei

By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with…

— Jonah Goldberg

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much…

— Oswald Chambers

Sport is a passion and out of passion comes love. No point trying to work out why some become heroes and others…

— Les Carlyon

The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not…

— Frank Herbert

There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If…

— William Barclay

Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task…

— Anonymous

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

— Aaron Swartz

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.

— Brian Tracy

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

— Anonymous

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

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

— Chris Chocola

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

— Judy Garland

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

— Woodrow Wilson

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

— Plato

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what…

— Soren Kierkegaard

If we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone…

— Peter Maurin

Success will smile at the man who refuses to lie down at the corridor of failure.

— Mike Murdock