Deny Quotes

I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

Anyone who tries to deny #ClimateChange looks a little bit bonkers.

All power is in essence power to deny mortality.

Everything you deny is actually killing you on some level. You see something, you feel something wrong with your body, you pretend it's not happening, it goes on, it grows, it gets worse.

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.

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

You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.

You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling.

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style.

Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution established freedom for religion, not freedom from religion!

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.

Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000.

All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

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!

Some folks of cider make a rout And cider's well enough no doubt When better liquors fail; But wine, that's richer, better still, Ev'n wine itself (deny't who will) Must yield to nappy ale

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

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

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 believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.

To deny being lovers in order to gain something.That can result in a much worse situation than one can imagine.

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.

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.

Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems to be.

It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

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

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny

When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.

The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.

Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.

I don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it.

To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.

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

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