We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

I’d started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I’ve only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.

Since the age of three I have refused God nothing

My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him – but all this in peace – in abandonment

Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self-esteem.

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a “one size fits all” standard for happiness.

What we know is that people who outright refuse vaccines are a very small group

I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms.

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love

People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of candidates would such people elect?

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

The Congress and BJP both have refused to waive off farm loans from nationalised banks. I have shared that our party will do this if voted to power.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what not just the government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men

Refuse to complain about your problems. Keep them to yourself.

Leaders set high standards. refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

The shortest way to drive yourself mad is to refuse to be swayed by hope or fear

Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.

We refuse to disappear, no matter how strong and brutal and ruthless the forces against us might be.