Deny Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• There are things within the culture that absolutely enrage me, and for me it is sacred rage. But it's not just peculiar to Mormonism - it's any patriarchy that I think stops, thwarts, or denies our creativity.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Creativity, Thinking, Peculiar

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• The idea of self-effacement, the idea that you feel so powerless that the only tiny morsel of power you have is over your own ability to deny yourself food - that to me is a very profound and sad methodology and indicator of how powerless a lot of people feel in this world. That they will turn that onto themselves until they are physically smaller. I think it's affected my worldview a lot - just being sensitive and empathetic towards the ways people want to be small. I don't wish smallness for anyone.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Self, Ideas

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• From a personal perspective, because I'm on a watchlist and went through years of trying to find out why, of having the government refuse to confirm or deny the very existence of such a list, it's so meaningful to have its existence brought into the open so that the public knows there is a watchlist, and so that the courts can now address the legality of it. I mean, the person who revealed this has done a huge public service and I'm personally thankful.

  Laura Poitras

  Meaningful, Government, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Singers, Said, Abyss

  Letter to Giulio Ricordi (April 11, 1871) quoted in "Giuseppe Verdi" (1959) by Franco Abbiati, Milano: Ricordi, vol. 3, (p. 448), translated by Edward Downes in "Verdi: The Man in His Letters" edited by Franz Werfel and Paul Stefan, New York: L. B. Fischer, (pp. 301-302), 1942.

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• Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

  Augustus Hare

  Eye, Moon, Malice

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• I have learned that in any significant or continuing relationship, feelings which are persistent had best be expressed. If they are expressed as feelings owned by me, the result may be temporarily upsetting but ultimately far more rewarding than any attempt to deny or conceal them.

  Carl Rogers

  Upset, Feelings, May

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are animals and we are made in this way and this is how we behave. I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.

  T.C. Boyle

  Animal, Impact, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We will never be able to understand the terrible things that happened between 1933 and 1945 if we deny from the outset that Hitler also had human characteristics, and if we fail to take into account not only his criminal energies, but also the appealing qualities he had.

  Volker Ullrich

  Quality, Energy, Criminals

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• Nurture your felt love for nature. Never deny it. That love is the eons, the purifying intelligence, beauty and diversity of nature sustaining us in its perfection. Our disconnection from this love and its advice produces our hurt, greed and destructiveness. We must reconnect and restore its peaceful voice in our thoughts, soul and surroundings.

  Michael J Cohen

  Hurt, Love Is, Voice

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• Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity

  Dwight Longenecker

  Dark, Mad, Insanity

  Dwight Longenecker (2014). “The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty”, p.5, Thomas Nelson

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• How valiant to deny the importance of money when it is had in abundance.

  Astra Taylor

  Abundance, Valiant, Importance

  Astra Taylor (2014). “The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age”, p.62, Macmillan

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• I deny the fact that when I kill time, time is actually killing me

  Eric Gamalinda

  Facts, Killing

  Eric Gamalinda (2007). “Amigo Warfare”, Wordtech Communications Llc

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• I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make race a nonissue and deny its impact on life and just say, "Don't think of me as an Asian cartoonist. Just think of me as a cartoonist."

  Adrian Tomine

  Artist, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in a high degree of tension with impulses toward corruption, toward violence, toward all sorts of things. The Dalai Lama himself would say that he has to fight these impulses himself on a daily basis.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Country, Fighting, Ideas

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!

  Emma Goldman

  Giving, Demand, Sacred

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.123, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Determination, Self, Socialism

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• I had to fight to be me and get respect, and to carry that stigma, for me, is pride. Carrying the tag of lesbian. I'm not bragging, I'm not preaching, but I don't deny it . I had to face society, the Church, which says damn gay people ... it's absurd. How do you judge someone who has been born that way. I did not study to be a lesbian. Neither was it taught to me. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world. I've never slept with a man. Never. I'm pure, I don't have to be ashamed ... My Gods made me so.

  Chavela Vargas

  Eye, Fighting, Pride

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• The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose.

  John Shelby Spong

  Rights, Battle, Slavery

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• Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.

  Ian Mcewan

  Reading, Humanity, Novel

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• The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not deny them the opportunity to participate in American life, so that they can go as far as their dreams and talents can take them.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Dream, Children, Opportunity

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• The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand, treats man as garbage - and his children, and his cities, too. Military science is probably right about the contemptibility of man in the vastness of the universe. Still - I deny that contemptibility, and I beg you to deny it, through the creation of appreciation of art.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Appreciation, Art, Children

  Kurt Vonnegut's Commencement Address at Bennington College, 1970.

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• So often times we see these films that erode human dignity...films that deny the transcendent moral order of the moral universe. They're always eroding natural affections for families. Fathers betray their commitments, children's are always portrayed as brats and disobedient, marriages are always in crisis and struggle. I think (for) most of us, that's not the lives we live. We're always being challenged, we always have challenges but we love our families, we love our spouse, we love our children.

  Jason Jones

  Children, Father, Struggle

  "Jason Jones launches Movie to Movement to move Hollywood toward positive storytelling". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. October 2011.

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• When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Doe, Matter

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• We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ignorance, Law, Atoms

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.47, North Atlantic Books

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