Deny Quotes - Page 3

• If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve

  Emily Dickinson

  Courage, Nerves, Ifs

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.549, Delphi Classics

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• The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Mean, Ethos

  "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.

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• God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

  Joyce Cary

  Real, Character, Blow

  Joyce Cary (1976). “Selected Essays”

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• Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Inspiration, Ethos, Groups

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Poems New and Collected”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

  Lord Acton

  Country, Men, Ethos

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.276, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Different, World, Hussein

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• In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those that deny the whole of it; since if Servetus had been a Mohammedan, he would not have been burnt by Calvin.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Believe, Half, Literature

  "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

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• I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

  Catherine O'Hara

  Parent, Months, Ifs

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

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• No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.

  Bernard M. Oliver

  Ethos, World, Excitement

  Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

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• But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.

  William H. Seward

  Men, Ethos, Constitution

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• Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

  Coretta Scott King

  Racism, People, Humanity

  Chicago Defender newspaper, April 01, 1998.

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• We only see what we want to see, and hear what we want to hear

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Air, Want, Four Agreements

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• A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

  William Feather

  Men, Ability, Obligation

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• I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.

  Julie Andrews

  Ethos, Fool, Would Be

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• Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

  Alice Miller

  Forgiveness, Anger, Doe

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.248, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Jonathan Frakes

  Stars, Stupid, Pennies

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• There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Life, Religion

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• 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.

  Helen Dunmore

  Tyrants, Opponents, Want

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Success, Song

  'Faust' pt. 1 (1808) 'Studierzimmer'

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• In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

  Cecil Parkinson

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

  Herbert Hoover

  Ethos, Progress, Fundamentals

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.30, Stanford University Press

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• 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.

  Lydia Lunch

  Thinking, Ethos, Lunch

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• The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Men, Ethos, Bravery

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• Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Roughness

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• The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you. There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied.

  Caroline Knapp

  Dog, Lying, Kissing

  Caroline Knapp (2010). “Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs”, p.215, Dial Press

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