Denied Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Depth, Culture, Superficial

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.106, New World Library

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• Justice deferred is justice denied.

  Diane Watson

  Justice, Justice Denied

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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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• 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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• 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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• Much of the hatred and fear of sexuality found in religions stems from the idea that sex is a thing of the body and that the body must be denied so that the spirit may be elevated. In Buddhism there is no notion that the body is made of inferior matter while the spirit flies free within.

  Brad Warner

  Sex, Buddhism, Ideas

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.17, New World Library

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• I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied.

  Layne Staley

  Wings, Has Beens

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• Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

  Jonathan Raban

  Rejection, May

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• It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.

  Adolf Galland

  Frustration, Careers, Long

  Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.

  John Calvin

  Mother, Son, Honor

  Calvini Opera, Volume 45, 348, 1877-1878.

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• Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.

  Rollo May

  Age, Normal, Transition

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• I've never denied my sexual orientation. I just don't make a point of it. It isn't what I do. Clearly, I'm known for the work I've done on trade and Social Security.

  Jim Kolbe

  Done, Social, Trade

  "Delegates consider boycott of Kolbe speech" by Jeff Barker, www.cnn.com. August 1, 2000.

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• While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream.

  Adam Schiff

  Beautiful, Dream, Country

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• The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

  Eddie Vedder

  Sorrow, Bigger, Grows

  Song: I Am Mine

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• Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition, was not denied to the Roman slave; and if he had any opportunity of rendering himself either useful or agreeable, he might very naturally expect that the diligence and fidelity of a few years would be rewarded with the inestimable gift of freedom.

  Edward Gibbon

  Opportunity, Years, History

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.29, Modern Library

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