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

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
Edith Evans

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
Betty Friedan

And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it.
John Bigelow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.
Samuel Daniel

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

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

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

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

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

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