Refusing Quotes

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato

Politics, End, Governed

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Two, Destiny, Wishes

Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.
Ric Ocasek

Help, Someone, Chance

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.
Rush Limbaugh

Real, Here, Making

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
Jose Marti

Work, Evil, Political

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
Robert Smith

Why, Accept, Grow

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Aneurin Bevan

Future, Society, Born

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
Phil Crosby

Learning, Decision, Wrong

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
Robert Capa

War, Miss, Date

Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.
Pete Seeger

Questions, Answer, Correct

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

Truth, Act, Guilt

Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.
Mika Brzezinski

Experience, Successful, Show

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.
Nellie Bly

Good, Morning, Judge

If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
Caleb Cushing

Down, Cannot, Put

May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.
Alastair Campbell

Christmas, Mother, Political

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.
Norman Lamm

May, Religious, Facts

That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.
Tony Wilson

Life, Mother, Thought

My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that.
Scott Ritter

Family, America, Problem

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
Leigh Hunt

Famous, Nothing, Everything

At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.
Anthony Weiner

Change, Work, Time

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
Robert Walpole

Demand, Patriot, Insolent

I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly.
Robert Crais

Find, Sometimes, Dead

We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
Rowan Williams

Life, Find, Shall

The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.
Jim Clyburn

Science, Child, While

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.
Kit Williams

Life, Women, Later

Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
Queen Rania of Jordan

Home, Husband, Son

Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.
Anna Louise Strong

Character, Her, Makes

Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.
Leslie Charteris

Good, Best, Hope

You know some people are all about talk. I'm about results. Every victory, every conservative victory, I've had, I've had to bleed and fight to accomplish it, always adhering to our conservative principles, and refusing to take no for an answer.
David Dewhurst

Fight, Victory, Talk

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