Refused Quotes

I spoke to ears that refused to hear.

— Ronald Reagan

I've always refused to play terrorists.

— Tahar Rahim

“Friday. Proposed to Cicely. Refused.”

— Georgette Heyer

I refused to march because George Bush marched.

— Diane Nash

“Life again refused to remain lifesized”

— Salman Rushdie

Light refused increases darkness.

— Adrian Rogers

I refused to let go of what I had.

— Erwin McManus

Mony refused looseth its brightnesse.

— George Herbert

I'm more than just an option, refused to be forgotten. ~

— Drake

I can't act for peanuts. Years ago, I was offered a film but I refused point-blank.

— KK

“I wanted, but I refused to take. Now I resent, what I do not have.”

— Sarah Ann Walker

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

— Zelda Fitzgerald

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

— Constantin Brancusi

I refused then like I do now to let anybody tie me down

— Ray LaMontagne

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

— Walker Percy

I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard.

— Suzi Quatro

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

— Isak Dinesen

“The candidate who billed himself as a billionaire—ten times over—refused even to invest his own money in it.”

— Michael Wolff

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have…

— Lance Armstrong

Somebody wanted me to autograph her breast and I kindly refused. She was in college. I thought maybe I shouldn't do that.

— Matt Czuchry

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy,…

— Graham Greene

I refused 'Chatuskone,' as I was required to wear revealing outfits and enact a few intimate scenes, which I was not comfortable…

— Mimi Chakraborty

“If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore.”

— Craig Groeschel

When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.

— C. S. Lewis

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused…

— Lord Chesterfield

He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such…

— Francoise Sagan

I draw the line at some things. Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a…

— Robert Crumb

I had artists that refused to work on Chappie if they were working on a design that actually said Denel on the…

— Neill Blomkamp

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon…

— Alexander the Great

Over the years, quite a few TV producers proposed that I do a program, but I refused. I didn't want to work…

— Ron Ben-Israel

No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that…

— Gertrude Stein

You know Sarkozy offered me the Legion d'honneur medal? I refused. People said I refused because I don't like Sarkozy, but that's…

— Azzedine Alaia

I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my…

— George Sand

I was avoiding it, and never came across in my mind but to my surprised I was caught in the act, had…

— Donah Cruz

In actor's career, I had a fair amount of denial, which I think is possibly in the genes, where I just couldn't…

— Ann Dowd

There was recently a story out that I turned down a role in a major franchise. That's not true. I refused to…

— Max Irons

“Can't release her? The air caught in my chest, hardened, and refused to move. There was a good chance I wasn't making…

— Skye Callahan

“How would it be," she asked them coldly as they left the classroom [Prof Binns, History subject], "if I refused to lend…

— J.K. Rowling

“Well, this. That we’re ashamed to say we’ve refused a posting. That the social conscience completely dominates the individual conscience, instead of…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?" "I consider their disdain for her to…

— brandon sanderson