Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.

There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.

Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions. That's what change looks like.

I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

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

If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.

If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.

Southern Baptist Convention's EC president Frank Page tells me: "If I'm told I have to marry same sex couples I will refuse."

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

Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.

Forget: Refuse to dwell; let go and loosen one's hold, particularly on memory. To forget is an active - not passive - endeavor.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

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.

You can't refuse to move forward when you're educating in design, because that's what we're asking students to do the whole time.

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.

It's not polite to refuse to dress for a parly. It's an insult to your hostess. After all, correct dress is a part of good manners.

I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself.

If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.

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 refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.

Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free.

The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate.

I don't read music. I refuse to learn how to do that. I barely know half the chords I'm playing. I like being naive when it comes to that.

At the airport if you refuse to be patted down, they arrest you. And what's the first thing they do when they arrest you? They pat you down.

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.

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.

Our nation is too strong and too good to let one man tear down everything we stand for. I refuse to let Donald Trump take our country backwards.

Over the years, I've had to learn how to deal with people who refuse to take me seriously. That's where I learnt the blunt side of my character.

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.

It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open.

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.

America is a nation with many flaws that only the stupid would deny, but with hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

The Sea Shepherd crew is doing what governments should be doing, but refuse to do themselves, because of the threats of trade retaliation from Japan.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

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