Quotes of: Refuse Keyword

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.

Kenneth L. Pike

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.

Townsend Harris

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

Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions. That's what change looks like.

Kathleen Sebelius

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Plato

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Thomas Jefferson

There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring.

Penelope Cruz

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

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

Sitting Bull

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

Edward Albert

Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to d...

David Wilkerson

A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.

David McGee

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

Diana Vreeland

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

Erma Bombeck

I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world.

Brian Molko

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

Jeffrey Tucker

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

Jamie Farr

I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.

Alison Tyler

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

Harry A. Blackmun

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

James A. Baldwin

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Winston Churchill