Deny Quotes

The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen.

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

We are hoping and praying that they will not be able to deny what the Lord has ordained.

Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.

Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.

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.

Do not deny the impact your life can have on others.

To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.

The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret.]

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

I'm a massive fan of the Stones, and I don't think anybody should deny them the right to carry on making music. I just wish they wouldn't wear leggings.

Today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.

If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

We wish our Christian brothers would be honest and permit us our heroes. We do not deny them theirs.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.

To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.

In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.

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.

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

The Gods are unkind and deny us knowledge of what the future holds

The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.

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

Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship.

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.