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I refuse not to have a sense of humour. -- Ken Livingstone
I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. -- Halle Berry
I will not refuse to do something that I can do. -- Edward Everett
I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture. -- Denis Leary
I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished. -- Markus Zusak
Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not. -- Phil Crosby
We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves. -- Rowan Williams
I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that. -- Liam Gallagher
Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus. -- Theodore Hesburgh
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born. -- Aneurin Bevan
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. -- Anatole France
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. -- James A. Michener
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. -- Thomas Carlyle
I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. -- Dean Koontz
Those who refuse to reform may not make mistakes, but they will be blamed for not assuming their historical responsibility. -- Li Keqiang
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. -- Aleister Crowley
I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going. -- Lydia Lunch
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. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
Years ago, NPR tried to stop me from going on "The Factor." When I refused, they insisted that I not identify myself as an NPR journalist. I asked them if they thought people did not know where I appeared on the air as a daily talk show host, national correspondent and news analyst. They refused to budge. -- Juan Williams
It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped. -- Amby Burfoot
Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things. -- C. S. Lewis
Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me. -- Martin of Tours
If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91. -- Mario Cuomo
Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right. -- Kami Garcia
True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It's knowing what should be tolerated, and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn't. -- Charles Colson
True courage is not the absence of fear; it is refusing to let fear control your actions. ~ from the book "Do Hard Things -- Alex & Brett Harris
Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet! -- Frank Herbert
Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is. -- Sharon Salzberg
To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt. -- Samuel Johnson
Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both good politics and good policy. -- Elliott Abrams
[R]efusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character . . . makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended and can never be proper. -- James Madison

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