Top 375 Refusing Quotes & Sayings

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

No matter what's going on in our lives, the victory is in refusing to quit.

One is either destroyed by adapting or for refusing to.

The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.

Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.

I believe that refusing to quit and refusing to fail will trump talent and brilliance in the end.

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. [...] It is afternoon, it is night, it is morning. Everything is reduced to this bed, this endless slumber that makes the days into one day, makes time stop, stretches and compacts time until it is meaningless.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.

Refusing to grant clemency is a failure of one of the most basic jobs of being governor.

True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It's knowing what should be tolerated, and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn't.

One of the things I am most proud of is refusing to serve in the military when drafted during the Vietnam War.

Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.

Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.

My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

Building a portfolio around index funds isn’t really settling for the average. It’s just refusing to believe in magic.

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

That we have had to sue in federal court to discover the truth speaks volumes. The FBI has built a protective stonewall around Comey by refusing to release the Comey memos and refusing to disclose records of communications between the FBI and Comey prior to and regarding Comey's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.

I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.

To me the ultimate sin was refusing to listen to reason.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it.

Those who refuse to change and to modify are refusing to be recipients of the anointing.

America has defended other nation's borders while refusing to defend its own.

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

Refusing to teach a passage of Scripture is just as wrong as abusing it

The dilemma of refusing a role is faced by every actor at certain points in his/her life.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Brock Lesnar made a career out of refusing to do media and not being accessible.

Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.

To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

The American people deserve to know exactly which laws the Obama Administration is refusing to enforce and why.

The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.

There are lots of grounds for hope in Israeli society. We are seeing Israelis getting fed up with war, looking for solutions. The youngest soldiers are refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories. Some are volunteering for army combat units but are refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories. We have the elite of the Israeli army, the air force pilots, some of them refusing orders which they consider illegal.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values. There is a problematic, a very difficult dialectic between accepting power and refusing it, accepting certain masculine values, and wanting to transform them. I think it's worth a try.

The challenge is to find our destiny in exactly what we are refusing to engage in.

We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.

Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.

Refusing to deal with numbers rarely serves the interests of the least well-off.

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

Terrorism is a crime against the mind. We win by refusing fear.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Literary success of any enduring kind is made by refusing to do what publishers want, by refusing to write what the public wants, by refusing to accept any popular standard, by refusing to write anything to order.

Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?

By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."

That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.