It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
Being brave doesn’t mean we have no fear - it means we refuse to be overcome by it.
I think I actually made a very kind gesture out of nowhere; I decided in the middle of that match that for every ace I hit I want to donate money. I just think people should honestly look at themselves before they judge another person. I've never been spoiled. I want a Range Rover very bad, but I refuse to spend the money to buy a Range. . . The diamonds are borrowed. I won't buy them because I'm too cheap.
If you believe in existence, you will refuse to be a hero!
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude.
Could you achieve the possible without trying? Could you achieve the impossible if you refuse to stop trying?
I refuse to live my life in fear.
I believe if I refuse to grow old, I can stay young 'til I die.
If I’m told I have to marry same sex couples I will refuse.
If the reality is not ideal, resist and refuse the reality and change it no matter how strong it is!
If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.
A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.
Do not think I do not realise what I am doing. I am making a composition using the following elements: the winter beach; the winter moon; the ocean; the women; the pine trees; the riders; the driftwood; the shells; the shapes of darkness and the shapes of water; and the refuse. These are all inimical to my loneliness because of their indifference to it. Out of these pieces of inimical indifference, I intend to represent the desolate smile of winter which, as you must have gathered, is the smile I wear.
Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.
At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young woman who has suffered in silence for so long, this good woman who refuse to believe she's good, for only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves.
I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be able to feel everything, which is why I refuse to go on any kind of medication. Not that I need to! But my point is, I wouldn't even explore that, because it would get in the way of my instrument.
I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.
Although I claim to be a Christian, I live at a moment in time when the Christian faith is being defined by fundamentalists who have dishonored Christ and are in the process of destroying His church. I refuse to wear the 'Christian' label without redefining it.