Top 100 Quotes About Refusing
#1. You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner. (Elizabeth Bennett)
Jane Austen
#2. He (Lincoln) recognized the delicate balance between immanence and transcendence, refusing to settle for either of these alone. His was a God who was both in the world and above the world.
Elton Trueblood
#3. As people get older they have these rigid patterns that they impose on themselves, and it kills them. They become dull, they become dead to new experience, they become afraid, biased, and bigoted. It's really simply to do with refusing new experience.
Jeanette Winterson
#4. What exactly do you think you're doing?" Hell if he knew. Mitch was in pure reaction mode - the words "keep her" pounded in his brain like a mantra, refusing to be ignored.
Jennifer Dawson
#5. He also had a kind of helpless politeness, which I took advantage of. He was quite incapable of refusing a direct request, and so, because I asked him to, he invited me to several parties during the month I stayed in Hemgogn.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#6. The thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity.
Victor Hugo
#7. Those who controlled private capital largely walked away from the US economy for the entire 1930s, refusing to pump in enough new investment even to replace the machinery and goods-in-process that were consumed during the decade.
Robert P. Murphy
#8. Maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway
excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.
Kathleen Winsor
#9. I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.
Rush Limbaugh
#10. My hate is general, I detest all men;
Some because they are wicked and do evil,
Others because they tolerate the wicked,
Refusing them the active vigorous scorn
Which vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.
Moliere
#11. Refusing to rate what we perceive helps us to cultivate feelings of acceptance rather than judgement, as we stop demanding that life be other than it is.
Sarah Napthali
#12. Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.
Caitlin Flanagan
#13. Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.
Mika Brzezinski
#14. 27Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.
Anonymous
#15. One of man's deepest habits is keeping alert for dangers and difficulties, refusing to allow himself to explore his own mind because he daren't take his eyes off the world around him.
Colin Wilson
#16. God acts differently. God continues to give, refusing to make giving dependent on our receiving things rightly.
Miroslav Volf
#17. Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Aneurin Bevan
#18. Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
Phil Crosby
#19. Courage wasn't a matter of taking the whole mountain in a single massive leap. Courage was taking it one step at a time, doing what was necessary now, preparing for the next step, and refusing to worry about whether some step in the future would be the one that would break him.
Timothy Zahn
#20. When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.
Therese Of Lisieux
#21. The two boys stood and looked at each other. There was no amusement and no scorn in Attean's eyes. How very strange, Matt thought. After all the brave deeds he had dreamed of doing to win this boy's respect, he had gained it at last by doing nothing, just by staying here and refusing to leave.
Elizabeth George Speare
#22. As soon as the victim steps out of the pact by refusing to feel ashamed," he said, "the whole thing crumbles.
Jon Ronson
#23. The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance.
Charlie Munger
#24. But I was open to anything my students wanted to do, refusing to accept the idea that a teacher should confine his teaching to the classroom when so much was at stake outside it.
Howard Zinn
#25. There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.
Andy Stanley
#26. I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.
Virginia Woolf
#27. Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality from Allah, and he is only His powerless and compelled means.
Abdullah Ibn Alawi Al-Haddad
#28. I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn.
Patricia Goldbach
#29. It can happen that when we are at prayer some brothers come to see us. Then we have to choose either to interrupt our prayer or to sadden our brother by refusing to answer him. But love is greater than prayer. Prayer is one virtue among others, whereas love contains them all.
John Climacus
#30. We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been the legacy of those of us who are labelled with mental illness. We are refusing to reduce human beings to illnesses.
Patricia Deegan
#31. We are wooed, then mocked, plagued like Amfortas, King of the Grail Knights, by a wound refusing heal.
Patti Smith
#32. Try refusing the arrangement, or later petition for divorce
the first is impossible while the second is like admitting you're a whore.
Euripides
#33. The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing?
W. H. Auden
#34. We're an adaptable species," she said, refusing to be stopped, "but it's wrong to inflict suffering just because your victim can endure it." "Learn
Octavia E. Butler
#35. You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
Cesare Pavese
#36. Where is my oasis? Too far from
here for me to crawl with these
dead legs, refusing to co-operate
Hands and fingers clawing uselessly
through the grains of sand ...
Kiera Woodhull
#37. If you feel so empty
So used up, so let down
If you feel so angry
So ripped off so stepped on
You're not the only one
Refusing to back down
You're not the only one
So get up
Three Days Grace
#38. I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.
D.H. Lawrence
#39. I wait for him to announce my presence, holding his gaze, refusing to look away, determined that this beautiful boy see the face he sentences to death with this next words.
Sophie Jordan
#40. You can't hide and pretend to be someone you're not,Pearl. You can never belong to anyone else."
She set her jaw, refusing to flinch or look away. "Anyone besides myself, you mean? That's true. Though it was always true.
Theresa Romain
#41. She didn't talk about it: if this past year has taught her one thing, it is to live in the present. She immersed herself in every moment, refusing to cloud it by considering the cost. The fall would come - it always did - but she usually collected enough memories to cushion it a little.
Jojo Moyes
#42. Divided we stand,' Simon thought, his stubborn biceps refusing to bulge. 'United we do push-ups.
Cassandra Clare
#43. I didn't realize you were a man of faith." "My people have a rich spiritual heritage," Chakotay said. "I spent many years refusing to appreciate it, but, like most truths, it found me eventually and held me.
Kirsten Beyer
#44. That's the unforgivable sin, you know."
"What is?"
"Refusing to forgive someone."
"Refusing to forgive someone is the unforgivable sin?" I asked incredulously.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#45. One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
- Plato
Sienna Wilder
#46. The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
Salman Rushdie
#48. We criticise corruption in others, but are blind to our own dishonesty. We hate others who do wrong and commit crimes, blithely ignoring our own misdeeds, big and small. We vehemently blame Raavan for all our ills, refusing to acknowledge that we created the mess we find ourselves in.
Amish Tripathi
#49. Please, compete in the spirit of fair play, mutual understanding and respect. And above all, please compete cleanly by refusing doping.
Jacques Rogge
#50. Refusing the false securities of a stable and linear past, such an approach celebrates heterogeneous sensations and surprising associations, random connections, the ongoing construction of meaning and also admits into its orbit the mysterious agency of artifacts, space and non-humans from the past.
Tim Edensor
#51. People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
Leo Tolstoy
#52. He had, in fact, cracked his knee-cap. But refusing to have a doctor
Theo Aronson
#53. The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.
Jim Clyburn
#54. Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.
Rob Bell
#55. The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it ticks.
Odo Simon Agbo
#56. Hermione was now refusing to speak to Harry and Ron, but she was such a bossy know-it-all that they saw this as an added bonus.
J.K. Rowling
#57. I can't control your behavior; nor do I want that burden ... but I will not apologize for refusing to be disrespected, to be lied to, or to be mistreated. I have standards; step up or step out.
Steve Maraboli
#58. You stand a better chance of bringing pretend to life through the power of belief than you stand any chance of erasing what's real by refusing to believe.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#59. Passionately defending one's principles is crucial. Representing your district is fundamental. But refusing to entertain the common ground - with no other cost but giving the other guy a political 'win' - is a disservice.
Mike Quigley
#60. Of course, I tweet. Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#61. If we allow ourselves to cast aside the unspeakable; refusing to believe in our own capacity for hate, deceit, and destruction, then is there hope for our properity?
William Macmichael
#62. Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.
Leslie Charteris
#63. Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far from preventing disappointment, ultimately guarantees it.
Martha N. Beck
#64. Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.
Samuel Daniel
#65. As if Spade's chivalry would allow him to do anything to a woman. The harshest punishment she could imagine him dishing out to Cat would be refusing to open a door for her.
Jeaniene Frost
#66. Books - all books - are complicated things, muttering at us in different contradictory voices, refusing to stay the same when we go back to them. Tying them down too much robs of them of the magic.
Andrew Rilstone
#67. The ones who fight each other because of their own beliefs are like specks of dirt fighting each other about the nature of their world, refusing to see that they are all in the same mud puddle on the side of the road.
Joshua Kadison
#68. The secret is in absolutely refusing to let the river beat you down. If I had to, I'd measure my progress in inches. One more inch I've swum - one less inch to swim. Once you know the secret, then nobody's river can bring you down.
Bette Greene
#69. Renunciation, or refusing to identify with that which one gathers (however precious it may be), is the ultimate doorway to knowing.
Sadhguru
#70. Rejection of food: This was the first hurdle I encountered after parting with him. Refusing food is basically a refusal of relationships, and if it gets worse it can turn into a frightening illness, leading to a complete destruction of all human contact.
Kyung-ran Jo
#71. The woman had told the truth. The flowers were the color of sunset. And not the yellowish tinge of a lazy sun either, but the intense orange of a sun refusing to set on anyone else's terms.
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
#72. I nodded, refusing to consider the possibility that any of us are doomed to die the same sorry people we sometimes become.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#73. God has a plan for His Church upon earth. But alas! we too often make our plan, and we think that we know what ought to be done. We ask God first to bless our feeble efforts, instead of absolutely refusing to go unless God go before us.
Andrew Murray
#74. To me, being appropriate
does not always mean conforming. Often it means just
the opposite. Sometimes, refusing to conform and even confronting
is not only appropriate but necessary to change the
world for the better.
Donda West
#75. I thank thee, Lord, for forgiving me, but I prefer staying in the darkness: forgive me that too." - "No; that cannot be. The one thing that cannot be forgiven is the sin of choosing to be evil, of refusing deliverance. It is impossible to forgive that. It would be to take part in it.
George MacDonald
#76. Building a portfolio around index funds isn't really settling for the average. It's just refusing to believe in magic.
Bethany McLean
#77. Vera looked at me, and her eyes filled with tears. She does this sometimes, especially when I'm being hateful and difficult; she responds by having all the feelings I'm refusing to have. Now she reached over and took my hand, and we both began to cry.
Nora Ephron
#78. There is one side. That is the side of friendship and trust and love and that is the side that everyone should be on, and I am refusing to acknowledge that any other side could exist.
Alexandra Bracken
#79. Raking a hand through his hair, he forced his attention to the text she'd left on the coffee table, refusing to dwell on the disconcerting fact that a part of him had taken one look at the lass in such proximity to his bed and said simply: Mine
Karen Marie Moning
#80. I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Howard Fast
#81. Paul turned her to face him. I see a breathtaking woman scared to death to see how beautiful she actually is, a woman refusing to live because she has spent her entire life feeling inadequate in her appearance, a woman who has nothing to be ashamed of.
Abby Niles
#82. The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.
Joyce Carol Oates
#83. Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.
Anna Louise Strong
#84. Will we remain faithful in our obedience to God and be willing to suffer the humiliation of refusing to be independent?
Oswald Chambers
#85. If you believe Jesus ever had a good word for war or torture or tax cuts for the rich, or raping the earth, or refusing water to dying migrants, then you might as well believe bunnies lay painted eggs.
Bill Maher
#86. Today it's nice to be able to entertain odd thoughts without having to marry them all. Thank God. I can think whatever the hell I want. Entertaining odd thoughts won't make you crazy. Refusing to entertain odd thoughts won't make you well.
Mark Vonnegut
#87. I can't say I forgive her for refusing to indulge the perhapsness of what we might have been, but I understand why she chose to do it, and she never asked for my forgiveness.
Robyn Schneider
#88. You can always tell when an old person has no idea what you are talking about, because they mess up the wording almost as if they're trying to defeat the thing you are discussing by refusing to name it correctly.
Matthew Quick
#89. I have done it," says my memory. "I cannot have done it," says my pride, refusing to budge. In the end - my memory yields. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, "Fourth Part: Maxims and Interludes
Jodi Picoult
#90. But something doesn't feel right. My mind is attempting sabotage, refusing to find the beauty, the fun, the exciting in watching what are essentially pretty explosives.
Louise Gornall
#91. Being a seeker of truth means refusing to make assumptions about things that you do not know.
Sadghuru
#92. Nothing could appear to be more human than refusing to believe extinction possible so long as you were encircled by luscious eggplants and ripe tomatoes[..]
Philip Roth
#93. Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.
Chuck Palahniuk
#94. Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying on it to achieve your objectives causes the same kind of chaos in foreign policy that it does in matters closer to home.
Alan Wolfe
#95. It could be said that going to church will not make one a Christian. But ... refusing to fellowship with believers will not make you one either.
Billy Graham
#96. It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions ... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.
Bridget Riley
#97. Your future together? To get there, it means refusing all the other crap the universe hands you. It means telling the Wheel of Fate to suck it and roll over someone else. It means not settling for any of the other endings you see coming. It means holding out.
Kami Garcia
#98. You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.
Ramana Maharshi
#99. In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW Emerson came to bail him out, Emerson said, 'Henry, what are you doing in there?' Thoreau quietly replied, 'Ralph, what are you doing out there?'
Henry David Thoreau
#100. Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.
George Sterling
