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Quotes About Refuse

The unpardonable sin is committed only by lost people, and then it is the sin of those who do not want to be saved and deliberately refuse salvation. There is no other unpardonable sin.
~ John R. Rice
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
Oh, I know that she's disgusted, cause she's feeling so abused. She gets tired of the lust, but it's so hard to refuse.
~ Elvis Costello
Once there is life there is equally an endless hope. Yes! And so, refuse to see a hopeless end as long as you are still alive. For, your life per se is a sign of hope (undoubtedly). ~Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
You are/will remain a prisoner of your past rather than a pioneer of your future until you refuse/quit outrightly to live in your past/good old days. You can say I said so.
~ Emeasoba George
His power to adore is responsible for all his crimes: a man who loves a god unduly forces other men to love his god, eager to exterminate them if they refuse.
~ Emil Cioran
It is a matter of embracing one's only life, even though this life so often seems to be, merely, one's doom. And it is, in a way, though not "merely." But to refuse the doom of one's only life is to be trapped outside all nourishment.
~ baldwin james vii
But the truth is incapable of real harm. It is we who do harm, when we refuse to face what is real, because it's uncomfortable or inconvenient.
~ Barbara Davis
The idea of a census was considered an intolerable intrusion. Providing information to "place-men and taxmasters," it was denounced by a Member of Parliament in 1753 as "totally subversive of the last remains of English liberty." If any officer should demand information about his household and family he would refuse it and if the officer persisted he would have him thrown into the horsepond.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
It was like struggling with some crushing physical task, something which one had the right to refuse and which one was nevertheless neurotically anxious to accomplish.
~ George Orwell
Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.
~ Georges Bizet
I plead your cause? What the devil gave you the notion that I plead any causes but my own? Believe me, it's wide of the mark! You can't be such a - such a care-for-nobody as to refuse to lift as much as a finger to assist me! said Stacy indignantly. Oh you're quite mistaken! I am precisely such a care-for-nobody.
~ Georgette Heyer
I shall take leave to tell you, Carleton, that I find your – your wit offensive!' 'By all means!' replied Mr Carleton. 'You have my leave to tell me anything you choose! How unjust it would be in me to refuse to grant you leave to do so when it has never occurred to me that I should ask your permission to say that I find you a dead bore, which I've been doing for years.
~ Georgette Heyer
Some of my friends laugh at me and tell me I'm far too working-class about my childcare, but I refuse to have a nanny.
~ Tess Daly
People are surprised when they realise that I have sung 'Tinku Jiya' as they felt it was not my genre. As a musician, till the time I don't try something, I don't refuse it. I like challenging jobs.
~ Javed Ali
If you are Iraqi, you know who I am... and you know that I do not tire. I am the president of Iraq and I refuse to answer these questions because this court is illegitimate.
~ Saddam Hussein
I AM YOUR STRENGTH AND SHIELD. I plan out each day and have it ready for you, long before you arise from bed. I also provide the strength you need each step of the way. Instead of assessing your energy level and wondering about what's on the road ahead, concentrate on staying in touch with Me. My Power flows freely into you through our open communication. Refuse to waste energy worrying, and you will have strength to spare.
~ Sarah Young
Pulling down statues of rock from their high places we must level the expectation upon which they stand waiting for us to fulfill their image waiting for our feet to replace them. Unless we refuse to sleep even one night in houses of marble the sight of our children's false pleasure will undo us for our children have grown in the shadow of what was the shape of marble between their eyes and the sun but we do not wish to stand like great marble statues between our children's eyes and their sun.
~ Audre Lorde
Love simply is-it asks no permission. Accetance is all love asks, the only demand it makes, but it is an absolute one. You can either admit it in your hearts or refuse it, but there's no other option.
~ Stephanie Laurens
They say a fool and his gold are soon parted, but they ought to say too that those who refuse ever to be parted from gold are the greatest fools of all.
~ Stephen Fry
What it comes down to, Red, is some people refuse to get their hands dirty at all. That's called sainthood, and the pigeons land on your shoulders and crap all over your shirt.
~ Stephen King
Unless you refuse the bad things happening to you, you will continue to suffer with your own consent!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.
~ Candace Bushnell
Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.
~ Albert Camus