What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

- Albert Camus

Elegance is refusal.

- Coco Chanel

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

- Carrie Snow

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

- Diana Vreeland

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

- Herbert Kaufman

The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.

- Lois Capps

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

- Margaret Halsey

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

- Rumi

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

- Seamus Heaney

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

- Samuel Richardson