Best 325 quotes in «deny quotes» category

Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

Every man who loses everlasting life rejects it himself. God denies it not to him-he will not come that he may have life.

Faith never denies reality but leaves room for God to grant a new reality.

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.

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.

Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.

Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony

For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.

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 could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

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

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

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

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.

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 deny nothing, but doubt everything.

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

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

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

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

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 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 your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve

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