Denied Quotes - Page 27

• Gary Nixon and I have had a loving, committed, faithful relationship for twenty-five years (now over 30) yet we are denied more than a thousand rights and protections that go automatically with marriage.

  Mel White

  Rights, Years, Faithful

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• All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

  Wallace Stevens

  Political, Poetic, Economic

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.17, Vintage

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• But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.

  Toby Jones

  Running, Children, Thinking

  "Toby Jones: dial H for Hitchcock". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2012.

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• I am crazy for dessert. I eat everything. No one should be denied anything... just don't eat the whole thing.

  Keri Russell

  Crazy, Dessert, Should

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS.

  Nicholas Stern

  Cancer, People, Smoking

  "Stern: Climate change deniers are 'flat-earthers'" by Sunny Hundal, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2009.

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• Justice deferred is justice denied.

  Diane Watson

  Justice, Justice Denied

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• I told the truth about steroids and human growth hormone. I injected those drugs into the body of Roger Clemens at his direction.
  Unfortunately, Roger has denied this and has led a full-court attack on my credibility

  Jim Lehrer

  Growth Hormones, Drug, Body

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

  Sophie Swetchine

  Giving, Joy, Charity

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• I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.

  Anthony Minghella

  Passion, Cds, Numbers

  Interview with Robert J. Elisberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1999.

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• Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Long, Answers, Ruins

  Jeff VanderMeer (2014). “Annihilation: A Novel”, p.168, Macmillan

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• That which is denied cannot be healed.

  Brennan Manning

  Denial, Healed

  Brennan Manning, John Blase (2011). “All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir”, p.30, David C Cook

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• My daddy never really lived before he died, He could never count on justice or know a free man’s pride, And now it’s almost certain that I, too, will be denied, I’ve got to make things better for my son and for my tribe

  Bob Teague

  Pride, Son, Men

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• If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each other to be denied marriage.

  Kevin Rudd

  Gay, Two, Normal

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• It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to Christ what we have and what we are. If, just as we are, we would lay ourselves on the altar of service of Jesus Christ, there is no saying what Christ could do with us and through us.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Miracle, Triumph

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• What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took place not by competition for females but by competition for space.

  Robert Ardrey

  Animal, Space, Competition

  ROBERT ARDREY (1961). “AFRICAN GENISIS”

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• Self must be denied as to time and attention for prayer. All-prayer cannot be wielded without the expenditure of time. "A minute with God" seldom lays hold of Him. Sustained prayer is necessary. Such time may only be found by snatching it from personal pursuits, however legitimate they may be.

  Walter J Chantry

  Prayer, Self, Attention

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• We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will not be corrected ourselves. The large liberty of others displeases us, and yet we will not have our own desires denied us. We will have others kept under by strict laws, but in no sort will ourselves be restrained. And thus it appears how seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Law, Perfect, Balance

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• That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Philosophy, Acquisition, Television

  Robert Neelly Bellah (1975). “The broken covenant: American civil religion in time of trial”, Harper San Francisco

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• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Achievement, Enemy, Opponents

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• All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it

  James Russell Lowell

  Race, Government, World

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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• So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Sea, Judging

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.362

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• We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

  Ovid

  Desire, Coveting, Strive

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• How can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a little of their mode of life, a little of their time? if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space “in no time” is to have denied its reality

  Robert Adams

  Reality, Rocks, Views

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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• A British imperium enabled Scots to feel themselves peers of the Ebglish in a way still denied them in an island kingdom. The language bears that out very clearly. The English and the foreign are still all too inclined to refer to the island of Great Britain as 'England'. But at no time have they ever customarily referred to an English empire.

  Linda Colley

  Islands, Peers, Kingdoms

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• The way the system now works, credit is extended to those who don't need it and denied to those who are in desperate need of it.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Needs, Credit

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