Best 325 quotes in «deny quotes» category

To write is to reveal oneself. When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect you to accept what I write, nor to agree with what I propose. I expect you to spend at least a tenth of a second to think about it - may be not about the characters, nor about the piece, but at least about the idea.

Unfortunately for its workers, the ‘Greatest Nation On Earth’ routinely shafts them by blatantly denying their disability and workers compensation benefits.

Violators cannot live with the truth: survivors cannot live without it. There are those who still, once again, are poised to invalidate and deny us. If we don't assert our truth, it may again be relegated to fantasy. But the truth won't go away. It will keep surfacing until it is recognized. Truth will outlast any campaigns mounted against it, no matter how mighty, clever, or long. It is invincible. It's only a matter of which generation is willing to face it and, in so doing, protect future generations from ritual abuse.

When I deny the seriousness of my abuse I agree with my abuser and those who wouldn't acknowledge it. When I am in denial, I have the tendency to minimize my abuse, believe the lies others have said, as well as deny it ever happened. It is important for me to remember as much detail as I can so I can trust my own perceptions of what really happened and not depend on the validations from others.

When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.

We deny more than we confess. We hide more than we reveal. We assume because it makes us feel exposed if we have to ask. It's easier to say "I feel nothing" than to admit "I feel something." It takes no courage to say, "I hate you" but it takes a great deal of moxie to declare its opposite. Masks are elaborate and everyone has one. It takes a while to get to know people. This doesn't make them special, it makes them like everyone else. Sometimes our hearts scream yes while our heads say run; and only one can be obeyed.

When the police willfully break the law on video and then deny the event in writing, you know that you are dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people.

You can’t win without being patient. You know why? Success comes when you value time by using it profitably. It comes over time; delay is not denial!

While the USA corporate government took three years to deny my disability application, the UK approved my pension plan early disbursement on the grounds of ill-health in just a few months from applying using the same medical information.

You may deny the existence of God, but always remember that God will never deny being your loving Father.

You may deny, but it is the truth that the money is the great game of power of the universe. The angel hands use it for construction and the evil hands for destruction. As it was, it is, and it will remain so.

All power is in essence power to deny mortality.

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

All songs are about shagging, you can't deny it

Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record.

Am I really gonna deny someone the opportunity of a lifetime just because they met me 5 easters early?

Andrea Leadsom also denies any tax avoidance, says she 'shopped around' for a good deal and it was from a British bank that booked the biz in Jersey.

Andrea Leadsom flatly denies she has changed her CV.

And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already powerful can acquire wealth?

Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan.

Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.

At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it.

Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

Before you disagree make sure you understand. In other words, we must make sure that we can describe another's theological position as he would describe it before we criticize or condemn. Another guiding principle should be 'Do not impute to others beliefs you regard as logically entailed by their beliefs but that they explicitly deny'.

Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.

Better to be cast out of the Church than to deny Christ.

Both the State Department and the FBI deny any 'quid pro quo' between Hillary Clinton's State Department and the FBI.

Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.

But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own.

Call me any name you like I will never deny it.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.

Claim everything. Explain nothing. Deny everything.

Climate change is so unimaginable that most Americans deny it's happening.

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

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.

Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.

Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.

Do you deny it?” Grimani persisted. “That you went to Marchese Rinaldo's room to ask him about your notebook?” “Deny it? Only the greatest selfrestraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance.

Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.

Deny my individuality and I become an animal, mute, a mere creature of all the forces that act upon me.

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?