Top 484 Refuses Quotes & Sayings

I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Anyone who refuses to marry is shrinking his farmwork, wasting the seed, and leaving idle the appropiate tools created by God; he sins against the purpose of creation and wisdom visible in the evidence of natural structure. The man who refuses to marry has severed a chain of being, a previously unbroken chain linking his own existence to that of Adam.

Woe betide the man who refuses to conform.

Courage refuses frontiers!

Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.

I am the only composer who refuses films.

A human encounter with holiness is devastating. It refuses to allow us to be impressed with the things of the world we’ve been chasing. It refuses to allow us to remain comfortable in our sin. It refuses to allow us to remain on the throne of our lives. And it leads us to a relationship with the only One who can perfectly love us, who can forgive all our sins, and who can make us into His likeness. Our encounter with His holiness is our devastation. And our devastation is our salvation.

Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.

Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine.

A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.

It’s not just Israel who refuses to speak to Hamas. It’s the whole international community… Most of the democratic world refuses to have a relationship with Hamas because Hamas has refused to meet the most minimal benchmarks of international behavior.

Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.

She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful.

An ocean refuses no river.

The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose.

A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

North Korea's sin is that it refuses to surrender, to fall on its knees, to sacrifice its people. It refuses to become a slave. For centuries, European and later US colonialism punished such defiance in the most brutal ways. Western culture is, after all, based and built on slavery. It demands absolute compliance, unconditional submission. If North Korea is attacked, it should fight back! And it will.

Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody.

Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.

The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot his opponent, but he refuses to hate him. And he stands with understanding, goodwill at all times.

If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.

Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and rejects the drawing of God's Spirit on his heart. No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with God.

Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to the God idea, and opposes the theistic principle as such. Gods in their individual function are not half as pernicious as the principle of theism which represents the belief in a supernatural, or even omnipotent, power to rule the earth and man upon it. It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.

Nature refuses to rest.

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

The present day composer refuses to die.

to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

The heart holds answers the brain refuses to see.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.

A person who refuses to give up will always succeed eventually.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced delivery systems.

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

I will continue to fight for legislation that forces Congress to read the bills! I will fight for a vote on my bill that calls for a waiting period for each page of legislation. I will continue to object when Congress sticks special interest riders on bills in the dead of night! And if Congress refuses to obey its own rules, if Congress refuses to pass a budget, if Congress refuses to read the bills, then I say: Sweep the place clean. Limit their terms and send them home!

The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose.

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

There's a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl He's always at home with his back to the wall And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross And he likes to be known as the angry young man.

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries.

The biggest hindrance to the missionary task is self. Self that refuses to die. Self that refuses to sacrifice. Self that refuses to give. Self that refuses to go.

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

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