Top 100 I Refuse Quotes
#1. I cannot find the perfect person, but I refuse to live my life living a tragic love story based on just sex, and selfish act.
Roxy Writer
#2. Guilt is one of those useless emotions I refuse to indulge.
Rosemary Daniell
#3. I refuse to behave fraudulently, as if I was anything else but African.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#4. I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.
Robbie Williams
#5. I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
Warren Spector
#6. I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.
Clarice Lispector
#7. Look here, cousin," Big Country's drawled in the background. "This here's a car. We just got off a plane, and no matter how fast you push this bitch, she ain't gon' fly, so believe me when I say, I refuse to die over some foolishness you call love, not today.
Shay Rucker
#8. My work is not generally in the commercial sector. However, I'm not worried by the commercial sector. I refuse to work in any other way except the way that I work.
Simon McBurney
#9. I am responsible for what I believe and, I might add, for what I refuse to believe, because the content of what I do or do not believe makes a tremendous difference to what I become and how I act.
J.P. Moreland
#10. I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
Kanye West
#11. Integrity, number one. Even in business that's predicated on lies I refuse to become part of the lies that is all-consuming.
Don King
#12. I could no more pray the Our Father, I could no longer call myself a Christian, if I refuse to forgive. Humanly speaking, I cannot do it, but God will give us his strength!
Philip Yancey
#13. I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
Oscar Wilde
#14. I wake up starving for success, and no matter how much I accomplish I go to sleep striving for improvement; I refuse to let my enemies outwork me.
Noel DeJesus
#15. Afraid of damn near everything. But I refuse to let it paralyze me. I won't be the woman who cowers behind four walls, never taking chances. I want to die like I've lived. I always wanted to be larger than life.
Ann Aguirre
#16. I have always been "Hacky Wacky" which is my lingo for HAPPY! I refuse to allow my obesity to control me.
Ruby Gettinger
#17. I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I have the talent to do it.
I'm going to do it because I have something important to say to the world.
I refuse to let anything get in my way.
Randy Ingermanson
#18. In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph.
Lotte Jacobi
#19. I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.
Dick Dale
#20. I close my eyes to the truth. I refuse to see what's happening, convinced that I can handle whatever it is believing that I'm strong enough and will recognize when I'm not. - Emma
Rebecca Donovan
#21. What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.
James Hollis
#22. There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music ... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.
Tori Amos
#23. I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to.
Connie Nielsen
#24. Maybe part of the reason I don't have any friends is because I refuse to let anyone in. My walls are always erect and impenetrable.
K. Webster
#25. I refuse to be linguistically constrained by dictionary writers.
Amy E. Reichert
#27. I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.
Stefan Molyneux
#28. It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.
Ben Shahn
#30. I just simply am not a dater. I think I have been on three official dates in my life. They are like job interviews and I refuse to be romantically employed.
Holland Roden
#31. I think I never thanked you for helping me.'
'You don't have to thank me.'
'Can I give you a kiss as gratitude?'
'How could I refuse?
Debra Strattford
#32. Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
Antonin Artaud
#33. He sits next to me and puts his arm on the back of my chair, leaning close. I don't stare back
I refuse to stare back.
I stare back.
Veronica Roth
#34. I'm a young woman who subverts the conventionally accepted gender paradigm because I refuse to conform.
Sara Benincasa
#35. Don't you dare cry. If you do, then I shall, and I refuse to allow it.
Patricia Ryan
#36. It is so wearisome having to represent things. That is why I refuse to look at abstract art. It is much too suggestive of the style of my thoughts, and I never think about my thoughts.
Bauvard
#37. Although I claim to be a Christian, I live at a moment in time when the Christian faith is being defined by fundamentalists who have dishonored Christ and are in the process of destroying His church. I refuse to wear the 'Christian' label without redefining it.
Mel White
#38. When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason.
Roselyn Sanchez
#39. I'm terrified of being poor, I always have been. It's growing up as a Methodist. I'll spend that bit of extra money to get a better seat on a train sometimes, because it's quieter and calmer, but I refuse to spend money on clothes.
Kevin McCloud
#40. People want to project their own insecurities on others, but I refuse to allow them to put that on me. Just because you don't think that you could be the best in the world doesn't mean that I shouldn't have the confidence to believe I can do anything.
Ronda Rousey
#41. I can't prevent you from becoming what you want, but I refuse to nurture a bad habit.
Joan Ambu
#42. And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't.
May Sarton
#43. That's what fashion is, really. A way of renegotiating the terms that life deals you. When a woman changes her hair what she's really saying to fate is, no. I refuse to be defined by those terms.
Kathleen Tessaro
#44. If you're listening Big Brother, I refuse to be Fanny Price.
Shannon Hale
#45. Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?
Oliver Heaviside
#46. I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.
Ayn Rand
#47. I refuse to let you fight me on this. I refuse to deny the way I feel about you. And I absolutely refuse to let you deny what you feel for me. You want this. I get that you're scared, but trust me, I will make this work for us.
Aly Martinez
#49. Okay, you're older. Not much, really. And considering you love staying in shape and I refuse to run, we'll probably get all old and crippled at the same time. If not, then I'll learn to use a cane, and I'll get to beat on your ass for a change.
Cherise Sinclair
#50. As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.
Jeannette Rankin
#51. I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
Barry Zito
#52. We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse to pretend the problem is insufficient knowledge. We lack the theological will to do it.
Jonathan Kozol
#53. I refuse to grow up. I won't become the adult guy.
Charlie Sheen
#54. I refuse to wait until my demise to be quoted!!!"
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#55. I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.
Paul Henderson
#56. I refuse to let anybody try to typecast me. It's against my nature. I like to continually do different things.
Irene Cara
#57. Even without the mushroom cloud
still I would have hated
Listen
I would have done the same things
even if there were no death
I will not be held like a drunkard
under the cold tap of facts
I refuse the universal alibi
Leonard Cohen
#58. I refuse to make uninspired music.
Ben Harper
#59. This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.
Dylan Thomas
#60. I was born a sweater, I shall just go on sweating until I die; I refuse to begin perspiring at my time of life." "You
Gene Stratton-Porter
#61. I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.
Barack Obama
#62. She is the most charming person in the world. That's all. I refuse to amplify. Excepting- she's perfect.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#64. I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
Ella Maillart
#65. Where is the soul? ... I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's breath leaves his body, the soul flops out like a chicken's head and flies off into space to find a lodgment where there [are] harps and haloes. Too much for me.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#66. I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.
Rachel Platten
#67. Today, I refuse to be pinned down to an identity. Right away, I want to betray it.
Erin Moure
#68. Extraordinary that those who command the perquisites of place are those most ready to ignore them! It is as if the blessings of Providence are specious, and notable only in their absence. Ah well, I refuse to speculate.
Jack Vance
#69. I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I'm 'bad'.
Mark Fuhrman
#70. France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.
Francois Hollande
#71. I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member
Groucho Marx
#72. If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.
George Bernard Shaw
#73. I refuse to pay a bill I don't owe.
Jon Jones
#74. Moving on, as a concept, is for stupid people, because any sensible person knows grief is a long-term project. I refuse to rush. The pain that is thrust upon us let no man slow or speed or fix.
Max Porter
#75. Sometimes my need to love hurts
myself, my family, my cause. Is there a cure? Of course. But I refuse. Refuse to stop loving, to stop caring. To avoid those tears, that pain ... To err on the side of passion is human and right and the only way I'll live.
Jon Krakauer
#76. I refuse to let you talk me into a make-out session in a dodgy, underground tunnel. I have standards, you know.
Rachel Morgan
#77. The revving heart of my hopefulness, kicked into gear anew, is the most precious thing about me, I refuse to vilify it.
Jonathan Lethem
#78. I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
Clare Boothe Luce
#79. Life sure gives us serious lessons, but I refuse to sit down and take notes. I can pretty well do that walking!
Marie Abanga
#81. I refuse to accept anything less than 100% of what I can achieve.
Will Smith
#82. I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")
Maya Angelou
#83. I refuse to argue with you, Charles! You're my partner! Your job is to iron my shirts and cook my omelettes, not boss me around!
Lemony Snicket
#84. I may be uncomfortable, but I refuse to be ashamed
Julie Murphy
#85. But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself.
Jim Carrey
#86. Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?
Oliver Heaviside
#88. I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.
Angelique Kidjo
#89. I refuse to live in a constant fighting match, Landon. It will not do!'
'And I've tried living without you, and it just won't do!
J.L. Sheppard
#90. The pain is such that I refuse to acknowledge it. I feel numb. I have somehow escaped from my body and am now a casual observer to this unfolding tragedy.
E.L. James
#91. I no longer know who I am, as I refuse to remember who I was.
Hans Lindor
#92. Please don't worry. I will always come for you. I won't let you go until you understand that."
"Then I refuse to understand," she said.
Lauren Kate
#93. I think they're bogus, honestly. How utter garbage like Crash and Million Dollar Baby can win best picture, where true works of art such as Garden State go untouched is beyond me. It just proves how close-minded America really is, and I refuse to take part in it.
Zach Braff
#94. I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture.
Denis Leary
#95. Unlike my dead lover, I refuse to/ choose the day I shock the world. There's no/ mystery left in suicide. The challenge is, my love,/ to keep yourself awake/ despite the sleeping pill doses of sickness and/ despair.
Rigoberto Gonzalez
#96. I would say I have a definite crush on him, but crush doesn't even begin to define it. I'm not even going to try to define how I feel about him, because I refuse to let my thoughts go there. Not now and not ever.
Colleen Hoover
#97. Let's fool around."
"And then?" he asked, voice low.
"When it's time, take blood, and then let's fuck."
He gave a surprised burst of laughter. "Ma petite, you are such a sweet-talker, how can I refuse?
Laurell K. Hamilton
#98. Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectual translations of this laughter, since my slavery would commrnce from that point on.
Georges Bataille
#99. Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
Dan Aykroyd
#100. But I tell people all the time that if you can do the job, then there's a spot for you. I refuse to believe that there isn't any room in this business. People leave jobs and jobs open up every year. If you can do the job, you'll find your way into the broadcast booth.
Joe Buck
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