Deny Quotes - Page 31

• We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Knees, Chains, Contribution

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• Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether to make ourselves feel more efficacious or to make the world seem just - we prevent ourselves from taking the necessary precautions to protect ourselves. Why take precautions? We deny the trauma could easily have happened to us. And we also hurt the people already traumatized. Victims are often already full of self-doubt, and we make recovery harder by laying inspectors blame on them.

  Anna C Salter

  Hurt, Recovery, Fate

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• May God deny you peace but give you glory!

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Giving, May, Glory

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.436, tredition

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• It is easy to follow Christ when all things are safe. But your love to Jesus Christ would be seen more, if you must lose your lives, or deny your Jesus. It would be a trial of your love, when fire and faggot [a wooden stick] was before you, if you would rush into that, rather than fly from the truth as it is in Jesus. Though all things are calm now, the storm is gathering and by and by it will break; it is at present no bigger than a man's hand. But when it is full it will break and then you will see whether you are found Christians or not.

  George Whitefield

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesnt have to occur. Theyll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

  S. Jay Olshansky

  Dream, Believe, Reality

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• ...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.

  Tom Robbins

  Life, Religious, Horse

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.356, Bantam

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• It is human self-renunciation when a man denies himself and the world opens up to him. But it is Christian self-renunciation when he denies himself and, because the world precisely for this shuts itself up to him, he must as one thrust out by the world seek God's confidence. The double-danger lies precisely in meeting opposition there where he had expected to find support, and he has to turn about twice; whereas the merely human self-resignation turns once.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Lying, Men

  "Works of Love". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, 1847.

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• I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, May, Next

  Abraham Lincoln, Roy Prentice Basler (1953). “Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”

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• It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as
  naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Spring, Ambition, Passion

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.21, Fordham Univ Press

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• The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Law, Use, Injustice

  Remarks at Gettysburg on Civil Rights, teachingamericanhistory.org. May 30, 1963.

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• Don't waste your love on stupid people. Anyone stupid enough to deny or reject it-in the midst of the Love Depression we're in-does not deserve it.

  Perry Brass

  Love, Stupid, People

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.28, Perry Brass

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• One cannot deny that in former times man's life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man's life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.

  Haile Selassie

  Men, Civilization, Progress

  Interview with editor of "The Voice of Ethiopia", April 5, 1948.

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• Every man in the game, from the minors on up, is not only fighting against the other side, but he's trying to hold onto his own job against those on his own bench who'd love to take it away. Why deny this? Why minimize it? Why not boldly admit it?

  Ty Cobb

  Jobs, Fighting, Men

  Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.280, U of Nebraska Press

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• Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Mean, Sleep

  1597-8 King Henry. Henry IV PartTwo, act 3, sc.1, l.25-31.

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• When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate?

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Religious, Battle, Devil

  "Why Are Religious Beliefs Off Limits?" By Lawrence M. Krauss, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.

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• I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.

  Hans Kung

  Reality, Space, Transition

  "Controversial Theologian Hans Küng 'I Don't Cling to This Life'". Interview with Markus Grill, www.spiegel.de. December 12, 2013.

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• There is a common, puritanical way that we look at things where, if it involves sexuality, somehow the women must be compromised. It's just chauvinistic to deny women their sexuality. It's about empowering. It comes down to choices. If the choices are available and they're making that choice, they're not being exploited.

  Amber Heard

  Choices, Empowering, Looks

  "Amber Heard Interview THE PLAYBOY CLUB". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 24, 2011.

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• That's what I mean about Catholicism - your sexual life is supposed to be dead if you're a good Catholic. That's wrong. It's human nature to be sexual, so why would God want you to deny your human nature?

  Madonna Ciccone

  Mean, Catholic, Want

  Source: www.ultramadonna.com

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• The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Gullible, Co Worker, Workers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dark, Soul, Trying

  Source: www.tangentonline.com

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• Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."

  Robert Frost

  Teacher, Teaching, Mean

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• To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical.

  Serj Tankian

  War, Iraq, Occupation

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's hard to deny talent. If you're good, you're good.

  Tyler Hilton

  Talent, Hard, Ifs

  Source: cuindependent.com

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• You have to close quickly, you have to eliminate time and space and you have to try to deny them the puck. When you're playing with it, it forces them out of their rhythm and forces them to play defense, which they obviously don't want to do.

  Chris Pronger

  Play, Space, Trying

  Chris Pronger during NHL Stanley Cup Finals: Flyers v Blackhawks Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. May 30, 2010.

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• What I've also noticed is the term happiness, or happy is intimidating to some people. Some people deny that it's even possible to be happy, or to achieve happiness. Happiness sounds like this magical destination that you arrive at and then everything is sort of solved, or it's different.

  Gretchen Rubin

  People, Sound, Different

  Source: bigthink.com

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