Top 779 Refused Quotes & Sayings

My analyst refused to hear my dreams. This was years ago.

Money refused loose its brightness.

I have refused money sometimes for a film. I have refused films when I felt that it was not for me. When it was just a job or just about making money, I said no. I wanted to make every film count, and when you are true to yourself, this gives you a certain integrity and a certain reputation.

Oh, he was asking to have an open marriage and I refused.

I've always refused to play terrorists.

I refused to pair with a Tory MP, I refused all foreign junkets and I've never had a drink in a Westminster bar.

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy. Or is there no such thing as "too late"? Is there only "late," and is "late" always better than "never"? I don't know.

For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.

Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused.

Since the age of three I have refused God nothing.

I always refused to give in if there was some argument with my father. Whether it was true or not, I refused to admit it and so often I would - well, tell lies, perhaps. I would either do that or change the story. Particularly if I felt that my father was being unjust, then I was very strongly motivated to not accept his ruling.

If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free.

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.

I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.

I refused to let go of what I had.

People claimed I refused to play. But that is not true and a complete lie.

it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.

Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.

Cole, who had kissed me. Cole, who had refused to discuss it afterwards. Okay, fine. I had refused. Cole, who was driving me flipping crazy.

I have refused to buy a car for the reasons of sustainability.

I have flatly refused to be conned by Jyoti Basu and his corrupt government.

Years ago, NPR tried to stop me from going on "The Factor." When I refused, they insisted that I not identify myself as an NPR journalist. I asked them if they thought people did not know where I appeared on the air as a daily talk show host, national correspondent and news analyst. They refused to budge.

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

And then, going to high school, I saw how popular girls had to behave to get the boys. I knew I couldn't fit into that. So I decided to do the opposite. I refused to wear makeup, to have a hairstyle. I refused to shave. I had hairy armpits.

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 ridiculous. I refused because I don't like decorations - except on women.

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

I refused to take no for an answer.

You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin-just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain.

I had the offer to race Stock Cars. I refused the first time.

I spoke to ears that refused to hear.

Mony refused looseth its brightnesse.

God's wraith is really only the face of love refused.

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

Light refused increases darkness.

His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle.

I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.

I refused to beat my head against stone, of course.

I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.

I refused to march because George Bush marched.

And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.

Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.

I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.

Most presidents have been controlled by forces that control money and special interests. When Donald Trump refused their money, he refused their control. This made him dangerous.

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

If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.

Raphael lifted a finger, tracing it over her cheekbone. She flinched. Not because he was hurting her. The opposite. The places he touched ... it was as if he had a direct line to the hottest, most feminine part of her. A single stroke and she was embarrassingly damp. But she refused to pull away, refused to give in." (page 33 , Gollancz edition)

It's easy to tell who the folks are that don't believe in evolution. They're the ones who have refused to participate in it.

I refused from the beginning to restrict myself to any sort of lifestyle.

I've refused roles because they're too simplistic.

I've always refused to associate myself with a brand.

Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.

Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused to salvage what they could from the wreck. Instead of trying to reconstruct their fortunes, they engaged in a bitter and "violent contest with experience"- and ended up victims of that brooding fixation known as melancholia.

I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.

MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.

Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.

O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused!