Refused Quotes

“Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched....”
― Janet Fitch, Paint it Black

“I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn't want to force anybody to want to.”
― Susanna Kaysen

“We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“We stand the risk of stagnation, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“If I have refused to risk, I have in the self-same decision refused to love. And if indeed I have refused to love, tragically I have refused to live. And when will I realize that that in and of itself is an unacceptable risk.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“protectionI requested the figures on OSHA whistle-blower complaints made and the number actually upheld. OSHA refused to supply them. They also refused to uphold my OSHA complaints and provide whistle-blower protection to me. My independent research leads me to understand that they uphold almost no OSHA whistle-blower complaints. It is very concerning that it seems like the same thing is happening with complaints made to Police Internal Affairs.”
― Steven Magee

“We stand the risk of backwardness, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“A life of madness I have been living for fifteen years. I have thrown away everything I had, my devoted wife, two lovely children, my family, my wealth on a hopeless passion. My love that once glowed like a warm flame is gone. A fire burns inside me now. My love, instead of being upheld has been cast aside like dirt. I can weep all I want out of rage and self-loathing but the world will only laugh at the sight of me.”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, The Thugs & a Courtesan

“I'd run away.

Precisely how Rhys expected me to run- how I'd told him anyone in their right mind would run from him. Like a coward, like a fool, I'd left him injured in the freezing mud.

I'd walked away from him- a day after I'd told him he was the only thing I'd never walk away from.

I'd demanded honesty, and at the first true test, I hadn't even let him give it to me. I hadn't granted him the consideration of hearing him out.

You see me.

Well, I'd refused to see him. Maybe I'd refused to see what was right in front of me.

I'd walked away.

And maybe... maybe I shouldn't have.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Because he refused to adopt a defeatist attitude, he overcame the obstacles in his path.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

“It is common to be refused medical treatment in the USA because your health insurance plan does not cover it.”
― Steven Magee

“One who refused to give me love and wisdom shall take it from me”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“When they were broke,
They called me SEVEN days a week,
And the minute they received a windfall,
They passed and refused to speak”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“Had I known the risks associated with oxygen administration, I would have refused to work atop the biologically hazardous Mauna Kea summit.”
― Steven Magee, Summit Brain