Refuse Quotes

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

I refuse to answer on the ground that this might be incriminating.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.

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

I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.

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

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

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

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.

The American people are screaming at the top of their lungs to Washington, 'Stop! Stop the spending, stop the job-killing policies.' And yet, Democrats in Washington refuse to listen to the American people.

I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

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.