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Refuse Quotes - Page 4

I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.

The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. November/December 2012.

What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.

Mary Antin (1914). “They who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration”

You cannot fix a problem that you refuse to acknowledge.

Margaret Heffernan (2011). “Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.553, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I refuse to be pushed around anymore.

Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.194, Vintage

Do what others refuse to do.

Grant Cardone (2011). “The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure”, p.78, John Wiley & Sons

I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.

"The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, September 1988.

The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.

Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.76, W. W. Norton & Company

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

Richard Rohr (2011). “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.51, John Wiley & Sons

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

Patricia Cornwell (2013). “Dust”, p.284, Hachette UK