Best 325 quotes in «deny quotes» category

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.

He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

He who denies his heritage, has no heritage

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.

How barbarous, to deny men the privilege of pursuing what they imagine to be their proper concerns and interests!  Yet, in a sense, this is just what you are doing when you allow your indignation to rise at their wrongdoing; for after all, they are only following their own apparent concerns and interests. You say they are mistaken? Why then, tell them so, and explain it to them, instead of being indignant.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

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.

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...

I am egotistical, that I won't deny...I do think I'm good - in fact, I know I'm good...but I know that I don't appeal to everybody.

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything especially as I am now so much occupied with theology but I don't see my way to your conclusion.

I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president.

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.

I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of it is inconsistent, or in other words, because it is repugnant that there should be a notion of it.

I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it.

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.

I don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it.

I don't deny myself food. I'm no saint. I love butter and cream, but I also eat lots of grains and fruits.

I don't deny that scientific investigation is capable of delivering important truths about nature, but that doesn't stop questions about whether, as it is practiced, science today lives up to its potential for benefiting humanity.

I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.

I don't deny that I get excited, but that's what happens when you're passionate about what you do.

I don't think people understand - atheists are really a disenfranchised minority in this country. There are six constitutions right now - state constitutions - that say things like what South Carolina says that, "No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution.

If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.

If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?

If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.

If I serve you in hopes of Paradise, deny me Paradise.If I serve thee in fear of hell, condemn me to hell.But if I love thee for love of thyself,then grant me thyself.

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.

If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.

If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you.

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself

I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.

If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.

I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

I just continue to grind on my own. You can't deny good music at the end of the day.

If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve

I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

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.

I'm an adrenaline junkie, I won't deny it. I'm not addicted to anything in life, except adrenaline.

I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.

I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a post-literate situation, that human speech is a near-endless source of poetic forms, that there has always been more oral than written poetry, & that we can no longer pretend to a knowledge of poetry if we deny its oral dimension.

I'm not like the Brexiteers. I don't deny that we have to permit immigration and the right of establishment for capital and services.

I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed that Katharine Carr Esters claims that she was 'tricked' into divulging her true feelings about Oprah and that she now denies that she revealed to me the identity of Oprah's biological father.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

I never deny a true experience in one shot.

I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem.