I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I refuse to let this suffering be for nothing. In fact, I refuse to suffer." I whispered to myself as I pushed each tent stake into the ground. "I can adapt. I am adapting." Another long day was done and I was forty-two miles closer to Canada.”
Source: Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
“I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.”
“I refuse to listen to the insidious arguments of the skiers, who are constantly trying to persuade me to abandon the kayaks. I trust my kayaks and will not give in. I have reminded my companions of my unswerving conviction on more than one occasion.”
Source: In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic
“I refuse to live a conventional life.”
“I refuse to live a life of regret. I refuse to hope things will get better in the future when I have complete control over making them the best possible right here and now. We have one life-and none of us knows how long our life will be or what will becomme of it. The possibilities are truly infinite.”
Source: A Work in Progress
“I refuse to live life with unsettled differences”.”
“I refuse to live my life in fear.”
“I refuse to live my life under terms dictated by the Empire.”
Source: Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel
“I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered.”
“I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.”
“I refuse to make uninspired music.”
“I refuse to not be up to this, to fail in front of Luke. I need to prove to Mag they were wrong not to trust me. And, of course, defeat evil.”
Source: Not Your Average Hot Guy
“I refuse to pay a bill I don't owe.”
“I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.”
Source: Les Guerilleres
“I refuse to put make-up on just because the paparazzi are on my doorstep. I find it morally wrong.”
“I refuse to put myself into a situation in which I have to face some kind of "I'm losing it" kind of thing. I'm not "losing it"; it's changed. What it is is changing.”
“I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.”
Source: A Gandhi Reader
“I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“I refuse to sacrifice for fear of what I will lose. But to not sacrifice is to insure that I will lose.”
“I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.”
“I refuse to say things behind people's backs.”
“I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.”
“I refuse to share the thoughts of the ordinary. I am the outsider not because they expelled me but because I expelled them! I have rejected the world. I am contra mundum. I have climbed on top of the moon and deflected the earth from its path. I have put out the fires of the sun with just one of my tears.”
Source: The Mistletoe Murders: A Nietzschean Murder Mystery
“I refuse to sicken because it will make my enemies healthier. I refuse to break off relations with any worthwhile companion because if I did it would make others’ loneliness more bearable. I refuse my sorrow to be known, for my sorrow is another’s joy.”
Source: The Devil's Notebook
“I refuse to sit and wait for salvation. Every day I have looked to the sky for the white streak of a plane making its way across the Pacific, but I have not seen any.”
Source: Day One: A Novella
“I refuse to sit on my laurels.”
Source: Dust
“I refuse to sleep on your fucking floor like some kind of guard dog.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.”
“I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.”
“I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. Thats a lie.”
“I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.”
“I refuse to suffer the torment of regret that comes from living a "what if" life.”
“I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.”
“I refuse to this day to do e-mail because everybody I know that does it, it takes another two or three hours a day. I don't want to give two or three more hours away.”
“I refuse to throw her into the abyss.”
Source: The Conjurer
“I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.”
“I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to the eternal. I say to myself above all, keep alive your conviction that there are sacred elements in the life in the practice of the life that must be respected. But the conviction in the existence of the sacred does not necessarily imply that you need to believe in a creator, because we are the ones that made the sacred.”
“I refuse to walk faintly through life only to arrive safely at death!”
“I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.”
“I refuse to write out lyrics for any of my domestic releases. I remember when I was 11 or 12 years old and I would listen to a song over and over and I would make up my own lyrics because I couldn't understand what they were saying. And later when I got the internet I googled the lyrics: What was he really saying?”
“I refuse, whenever possible, to do shows on a Monday. I don't do gigs on a Monday, because nobody laughs on Mondays. Everybody wants Monday to be over. I just won't do 'em. But the rest of the time, in all honesty, it doesn't matter where you are: if something's funny, people laugh.”
“I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.”
“I refused and refuse to let cancer define me. I never referred to it as “mine” and treated it as a separate entity that simply had to go.”
Source: Spiritual Sugar: The Divine Ingredients to Heal Yourself With Love
“I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.”
“I refused from the beginning to restrict myself to any sort of lifestyle.”
“I refused then like I do now to let anybody tie me down”
“I refused this evening at Oxford University to debate with an Israeli, a supporter of the apartheid state of Israel. The reason is simple: no recognition, no normalisation. Just boycott, divestment and sanctions, until the apartheid state is defeated. I never debate with Israelis nor speak to their media. If they want to speak about Palestine – the address is the PLO.”
“I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life”
“I refused to be disrespected. So, at 16, of course, I was a gentleman about it, but I told them and it cost me my job.”
“I refused to be stuck. In Pasaje, California. In the smallness of my mother's life. In a fixed notion of my cooking, my abilities, my worth as ascribed to my Chineseness my Asianness my smallness my womanness my perpetual foreignness--myself.”
Source: Land of Milk and Honey