Best 325 quotes in «deny quotes» category

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

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

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.

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.

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.

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

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

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

No compassion will be tolerated for the Jews. We deny the Pope’s statement that there is but one human race. The Jews are parasites.

Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere

No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

No one can deny you or grant you anything. It all comes to you by virtue of your vibration.

No one can deny, this love I have inside, and I'll give it all to you, my endless love.

One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.

Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?

One thing most of us agree on is that the universe exists (people who deny that usually follow some trade other than science), so if some theoretical particle interaction would lead ultimately to the nonexistence of the universe, then you can save a lot of electricity by not trying to demonstrate it.

Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!

Pastime with good company I love and shall, until I die. Grudge who list, but none deny! So God be pleased, thus live will I.

Real 'imaan' is faith in humanity, so those who deny goodness are kafirs.

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.