Refuse Quotes

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. (W. Somerset Maugham)
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak. View quote
Lillian Hellman
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. View quote
Washington Irving
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. View quote
Helen Hayes
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. View quote
Anthony Trollope
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. View quote
James A. Michener
Only idiots refuse to change their minds. View quote
Brigitte Bardot
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. View quote
Peter Ustinov
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. View quote
Edward Everett Hale
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
I will make you an offer you cannot refuse. View quote
Mario Puzo
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. View quote
Kanye West
Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature mutilated, overexploited is not able to recover and we refuse to admit it. From North to South, it suffers from ill-development, and we are indifferent. Earth and humanity are in great peril and we are accountable. View quote
Jacques Chirac
I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world. View quote
Brian Molko
You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. View quote
Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. (D. H. Lawrence)
I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything. View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work, And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. View quote
William Butler Yeats
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer. View quote
Douglas Adams
It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad. View quote
Thomas Bernhard