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Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. — Edward Albert

Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted. — Anzia Yezierska

If you don't want something, refuse it! Refusal is your true way to the stars! Man rises by refusing with courage the things he finds inconvenient! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility. — Pete Postlethwaite

When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach — Peter Ustinov

I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average. — Mike Tyson

No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? — Eleanor Roosevelt

I won't remain in a marriage where you refuse to trust me, to take some chances for my sake.
Abigail Mercer — Sabrina Jeffries

Today, I refuse to be pinned down to an identity. Right away, I want to betray it. — Erin Moure

I refuse to stay a prisoner to my body. I am going to free myself. — Leigh Hershkovich

I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care. — Mahatma Gandhi

Resolutions are most often empty promises for those who have an abundance of dreams, but refuse to wake up and live them. — Steve Maraboli

I have always been "Hacky Wacky" which is my lingo for HAPPY! I refuse to allow my obesity to control me. — Ruby Gettinger

I absolutely refuse to bare midriff. — Lisa Marie Presley

I refuse to believe that we're going to go through life without something magical happening — Lisa Kleypas

... some wounds refuse the remedy of time. — Robert McCammon

I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any. — Mahatma Gandhi

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. — Peter Ustinov

I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story. — Rob Bell

It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so. — Spencer W. Kimball

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience. — Flannery O'Connor

Do you reject the glamor of Evil, and refuse to be mastered by it? — Neal Stephenson

We are all the products and victims of our own upbringing, until we reflect, refuse, and rebel. — Rawi Hage

I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past — Christopher Paolini

I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently. — Cherrie Moraga

It isn't what we lose that defines us. It's what we refuse to release." Janeway — Kirsten Beyer

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it. — Andre Gide

The old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction. — Helen McCloy

Our obligation is to refuse to let bad win, to refuse to let evil hold the field. — James Comey

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that. — Arundhati Roy

It is not my place to judge another person's life. Only for myself, for myself alone, I must decide, I must chose, I must refuse. — Hermann Hesse

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse. — Marlon Brando

To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. — John Stuart Mill

The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse. — Colson Whitehead

No king becomes a king unless you submit to him! Behave honorably and refuse all the kings! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue. — Edward Gibbon

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter. — Jessamyn West

As long as the world's been the world, there's been those who live with it and those who refuse to accept it. — Yasmina Khadra

Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand. — Martin McGuinness

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States? — Victoria Woodhull

Refuse to put others either above you or below you, but instead see them as you. — Pauline Holyoak

If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no
matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying. — Brian Herbert

REFUSAL
When you refuse
to tell your weight
and age,
people know
you're fat and old. — Chocolate Waters

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation — Thomas Merton

Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife ... To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization. — Shamcher Bryn Beorse

We've become a nation of defaulters: we buy on credit, and when the bill comes in, we're so deeply outraged that we refuse even to look at it. — Tana French

Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept. — Warren G. Bennis

May we know fear, but may we always refuse to court cowardice. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have. — Andrew Vachss

A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up. — Evel Knievel

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance. — Brian Tracy

Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave. — Beth Moore

Once we refuse to honor God as God, our whole view of life and the world becomes distorted. — R.C. Sproul

Only a government that does not trust its citizens would refuse them the right to bear arms. — Curt Weldon

Men who refuse to use condoms do not deserve to be fucked by anyone but other men who refuse to use condoms. — Inga Muscio

I refuse to eat a fried egg if the white is still runny or transparent. I really can't be doing it. I always have to flip it over. — Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

If we chose to refuse irony, we risk becoming irony's dupe. — Janet Beizer

Be grateful to those who refuse your demands. They are your benefactors. — Marty Rubin

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. — Anthony Trollope

For those who want to believe, no proof is ever required. For those who refuse to believe, no proof is ever enough. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

God wants to use you stumbling and all, but he can't if you refuse to get up. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

Nonsense. Fools refuse to try something new. — Dorian Cirrone

Refuse to be average. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men. — Edmund Burke

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. — Eben Alexander

But the words she chooses withhold their best qualities, they refuse to match the way she feels inside. — Jessie Burton

People who would refuse to share their bread shared their insanity instead.

-Three Daughters of Eve — Elif Shafak

When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others. — Charles R. Swindoll

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list. — Nicolas Chamfort

Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all. — Mason Cooley

Refuse to feel foreign on your own planet. — Ben Tolosa

I refuse to let him go, not like this, not while I will always, always need him. — Sara Raasch

God will not be a half husband. He will not be comforted by the fact that we call him "Savior" when we refuse to follow him as Lord. — Randy Alcorn

People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers. — Rick Warren

I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world. — Bill Watterson

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. — E. V. Lucas

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms. — Blaise Pascal

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. — Dean Koontz

Against the odds, they refuse to succeed. — Charles Baxter

Refuse to be a slave of anything on earth. — Fr. Anthony J. Paone

I love you Willow, but I can live without you. I just refuse to. — Emily Snow

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing. — Horace

They soon experienced, that those who refuse the sword must renounce the sceptre. — Edward Gibbon

how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty - which was to step aside and vanish into history. — Frank Herbert

Could you achieve the possible without trying? Could you achieve the impossible if you refuse to stop trying? — Ron Kaufman

Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it! — Diana Wynne Jones

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny. — Publilius Syrus

I refuse to put God into a little box I can handle, for that would insult us both. — L.M. Fields

I want the part of you that you refuse to give. — Ellen Hopkins

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. — Jane Austen

Be thankful to those who refuse to help you, for they force you to summon upon your warrior within. — Miya Yamanouchi

I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars. — Audre Lorde

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists. — Pier Paolo Pasolini

The Mets have heart and character, and I need a man who can root for the underdog. I refuse to sleep with a Yankees fan. — Jennifer Probst

We refuse to believe that which we don't understand. — Napoleon Hill