Definition of Refusing

Refusing

of Refuse

Related Definitions:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.
Joshua A. Norton

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

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

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

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

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

More Refusing Quotations

Refusing Translations

refusing in French is refusant
refusing in German is weigernd
refusing in Italian is contrario

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.