Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
Brigitte Bardot

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
David Herbert Lawrence

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
A. C. Benson

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
Helen Hayes

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.
Aiden Wilson Tozer

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
Edward Albert

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
Abdul Kalam

The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.
Paul Gillmor

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

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

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.
Arianna Huffington

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.
Oriana Fallaci

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
Marlon Brando

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

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
Walter Scott

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Washington Irving

The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.
Sherwood Boehlert

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.
George W. Bush

There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.
Fred Frith