Refused Quotes
430 quotes by 391 authors
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I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy. I loved soccer, as you call it, or sports in…
— Cara Delevingne
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Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a…
— Max Lucado
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If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.
— Joel Salatin
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But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I…
— Indra Nooyi
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I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have…
— Leonora Carrington
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
— Hanoi Hannah
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My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too…
— Kemmons Wilson
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I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.
— Sam Sheppard
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... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly…
— Leonhard Euler
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...And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield...
— Don McLean
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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend…
— Oscar Wilde
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I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always refused to become…
— Virginia Heffernan
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I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.
— Catherine Helen Spence
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I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place,…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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If something fit in with what God had said to me, then I considered it. If not - no matter how attractive it appeared -…
— K.P. Yohannan
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The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused…
— Steve Almond
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I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to an…
— J. Maarten Troost
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It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was…
— Maurice Nicoll
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I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.
— Louis Zamperini
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My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.
— Charles Studd
Who Wrote These Refused Quotes
391 authors contributed a total of 430 Refused Quotes, led by these top contributors: