Denied Quotes

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.

People on probation and parole are typically denied the right to vote, and in eleven states people are denied the right to vote even after completion of their sentences.

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.

Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?

Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.

The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?

Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real monarch and we are all its slaves.

[The essences of things] are suspended on the invisible dimension whose vibrance has been denied the human eye at all times save in the intuition of ecstasy.

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.

If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows.

To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.

Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits of his labor.

No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.

She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with.

Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.

Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer is thegrowth of madness denied.

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.

Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.

Not to ask is not be denied.

I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.

Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.

Love is all there is, it makes the world go 'round Love and only love, it can't be denied No matter what you think about it You just won't be able to do without it Take a tip from one who's tried

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.

A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.

To ask too much is the way to be denied all.

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows.