Refuse Quotes

I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.

Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.

I refuse to be silenced.

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

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

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

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

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

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

I refuse to be stereotyped.

To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup, because as an actor, I enjoy performing. It's about the creation of the character and the art to me, not about being comfortable and how long it all takes.

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn't refuse to do another movie.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

Things got so bad that when I went shopping for a house, some people would refuse to open the door if they saw it was me standing there. And drunks would always want to challenge me.

I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.

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.

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.

I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church.

I've still got it. I refuse to lose.

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.

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

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

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.