(330 quotes found)
“If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.”
Ramsey Clark
“When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.”
Mark van Doren
“She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful. [About Susan Sontag]”
Michael Silverblatt
“I refused to take no for an answer.”
Bessie Coleman
“So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.”
Eduard Hanslick
“Nothing. I was miserable. I didn't wear this shirt, ... I refused to wear it.”
John Madden
“I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless”
Peter Walker
“I wouldn't refuse stardom, recognition, acclaim. I had no axe to grind either way... I wasn't wishing I was somewhere else, somebody else, richer or more famous. I was happy and secure with who I was, what I was and where I was. I didn't have to have what they all had.”
Dirk Benedict
“He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.”
Constance Naden
“The stone that the builder refused to lay should always be the head corners stone. You're a builder baby; here I am a stone.”
Bob Marley
