Deny quotes
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To seek Truth is to deny Truth to being with. To seek Truth is to avoid Truth, constantly.
-- Adi Da -
I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
-- Alan Cumming -
Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature.
-- Alan Lowenthal -
Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power.
-- Alexander Lowen -
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
-- Alexander Pope -
I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admitting it's wrong.
-- Amber Heard -
When a man denies the power of women, he is denying his own subconscious.
-- Amrita Pritam -
Do what comes into your life and do it well... Be polite without groveling. If you are ever afraid of anything, do not deny it, but behave as if you feared nothing.
-- Anna Lee -
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Better to be cast out of the Church than to deny Christ.
-- Anne Hutchinson -
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
-- Antonio Machado -
Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day
-- Aung San -
Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.
-- Avicenna -
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
-- Ayn Rand -
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
-- Ben Jonson -
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
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Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it.
-- Bernie Siegel -
I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it.
-- Billy Carter -
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
-- Bob Dylan -
When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.
-- Brené Brown -
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
-- Callie Khouri -
The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.
-- Camille Paglia -
All women like to have their clothes admired, and those that deny it are lying.
-- Carolina Herrera -
I don't deny myself food. I'm no saint. I love butter and cream, but I also eat lots of grains and fruits.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones -
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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.
-- Charles Dickens -
[W]e live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.
-- Charles Hartshorne -
Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
-- Charles Lamb -
Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.
-- Christopher McDougall -
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We kind of deny the stages of life.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.
-- Claire Danes -
I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.
-- Courteney Cox -
Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers.
-- Darren Johnson -
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Do not deny the impact your life can have on others.
-- Dave Dravecky -
I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you're always going to leave me, A. We can't deny it. You're always going to leave.
-- David Levithan -
Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
-- David Mamet -
We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.
-- David Oyelowo -
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We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.
-- David Sheff -
To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.
-- David Whyte -
You can run from the truth. You can run and hide from the truth. You can deny and avoid the truth. But you cannot destroy the truth. Nor can you make the lie true. You must know that love will always uncover the truth.
-- Delano Johnson -
Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.
-- Dominique de Villepin -
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You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.
-- Ellis Peters -
Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.
-- Emile Chartier -
If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve
-- Emily Dickinson -
No one can deny you or grant you anything. It all comes to you by virtue of your vibration.
-- Esther Hicks -
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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.
-- Frances Moore Lappé -
I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.
-- Fred Durst -
Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
-- G. I. Gurdjieff -
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
-- Gail Sheehy -
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A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
-- Garrett Hardin -
The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.
-- Gelett Burgess -
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God.... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.
-- George William Foote -
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Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?
-- Georgette Heyer -
To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
-- Gilbert Ryle -
The Bible consistently denies free will.
-- Gordon Clark -
Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.
-- Greg Koukl -
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The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work.
-- Gregor Strasser -
Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?
-- Gunter Grass -
Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.
-- H. Richard Niebuhr -
One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
-- Harold Ford, Jr. -
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If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
-- Harvey Fierstein -
I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.
-- Helen Frankenthaler -
What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
-- Herbert Read -
The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret.]
-- Horace -
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The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.
-- Horace -
The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.
-- Ingmar Bergman -
No one shall deny me my own conclusions, nor my cat her reflective purr.
-- Irving Townsend -
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
-- Isaac Asimov -
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At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it.
-- Italo Calvino -
Anything that threatens, hinders, obstructs, denies, delays your capacity to stand fully up for yourself, within yourself, take it down.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident
-- Jackson Pollock -
One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.
-- James A. Baldwin -
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Who loves his pain denies his god.
-- Jean Garrigue -
I do not deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.
-- Jesse Jackson -
You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.
-- Jesse Jackson -
Faith never denies reality but leaves room for God to grant a new reality.
-- Jim Cymbala -
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If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000.
-- Joel Hodgson -
If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
-- John of the Cross -
All songs are about shagging, you can't deny it
-- John Peel -
God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.
-- John Shelby Spong -
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I would definitely not be homosexual. I have nothing against what they do and I don't deny that I've engaged in sex with males but that I'm bisexual.
-- John Wayne Gacy -
Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way
-- Judith Jamison -
you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain
-- Judy Blume -
He gave her his best smile. His best I-almost-died-so-how-can-you-deny-me smile. Or at least that’s how he hoped it appeared. The truth was, he wasn’t a very accomplished flirt, and it might very well have come across as an Iam- mildly-deranged-so-it’s-in-all-of-our-best-interests-if-youpretend- to-agree-with-me smile.
-- Julia Quinn -
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Do you deny it?" Grimani persisted. Deny it? Only the greatest self-restraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance.
-- Kate Ross -
All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.
-- Katherine Neville -
If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.
-- Kathryn Schulz -
There's nothing wrong with being gay, so to deny it is to make a judgment.
-- Keanu Reeves -
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Thus the blasphemy of the homosexual formula, for it denies Babalon and breeds devils in chaos.
-- Kenneth Grant -
A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.
-- L. Ron Hubbard -
I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
-- Lord Byron -
We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force...
-- Louis D. Brandeis -
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A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.
-- Marguerite Yourcenar -
When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.
-- May Sarton -
No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution.
-- Michael Newdow -
You can't deny your limitations.
-- Mika -
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doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.
-- Natalie Clifford Barney -
Never deny passion, for that is to deny Who You Are, and Who You Truly Want To Be.
-- Neale Donald Walsch -
I don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it.
-- Noel Gallagher -
I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.
-- Oriana Fallaci -
