Best 325 quotes in «deny quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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.

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

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

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 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.

If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve

Indeed, as soon as he took office, Senator Mitch McConnell announced that his top priority was to deny President [Barack] Obama a second term.

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.

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

In the end of the film there is hope, ... There's beauty in ugliness. It's really important for us Latinos to acknowledge each other and not deny the reality, because our reality is fascinating.

I refuse to confirm or deny anything about any deal to purchase an American NHL franchise and move it to Canada until I've completed all of the paperwork and the deal is closed.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.

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

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.

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.

It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.

It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach.

It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

I try to eat well, but I don't deny myself the foods I love. I just eat them in moderation.

It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.

It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.

I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.

I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.

I will simply deny you the crown, and..... Live forever!

I won't deny that I'm in touch with my feminine side. If I'm in a lift and there's no one in there, I'll have a glance and check my hair. And if there's someone in there, I'll still check it.

Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians have insisted for centuries that God does not exist and that there is 'nothing' out there; in making these assertions, their aim was not to deny the reality of God but to safeguard God's transcendence.

Kant ... stated that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge ... to make room for faith," but all he had "denied" was knowledge of things that are unknowable, and he had not made room for faith but for thought.

Lent is a good time for sacrificing. Let us deny ourselves something every day to help others.

Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.

Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.

Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?

It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation.

Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.

Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.