Deny Quotes - Page 11

• Henceforward, I shout to the heavens, I shall deliver no more lectures on behalf of good causes: I am the good cause that denies the need for such lectures. Avaunt, importuning world! Back to my cell.

  Lewis Mumford

  Cells, Heaven, Needs

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Equality, Different, Kind

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.99, Ultramarine Publishing

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• It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Law, Doe

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.78, SCM Press

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• The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

  Gelett Burgess

  Temptation, Legs, Tales

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it.

  Billy Carter

  Apologizing, Notoriety, I Apologize

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• When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the antidemocrat in general.

  J. William Fulbright

  Liars, Men, Indulge In

  J. William Fulbright's speech in the Senate on McCarthyism (February 2, 1954), as quoted in "Congressional Record", Volume 100 (p. 1105), 1954.

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• No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.

  Wole Soyinka

  Mother, Men, Roots

  Wole Soyinka (1984). “Six Plays”, Methuen Drama

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• The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Inspirational, Running, Soul

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• Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means also being open to the bounty and beauty. Don't mask or deny your vulnerability: it is your greatest asset. Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it. The new goodness that is coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things can only come to you when you are vulnerable, i.e. open.

  Stephen Russell

  Mean, People, Boots

  Stephen Russell (1998). “Barefoot Doctor's Handbook for the Urban Warrior: A Spiritual Survival Guide”, Piatkus Books

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• If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable magnitude. Mankind alone has the power to carry out this fundamental change in the universe. Our failure would lead to consequences unthinkable. This is perhaps the first and only chance the universe will ever have to awaken from its long night and live. We are the caretakers of this delicate spark of Life. To let it flicker and die through ignorance, neglect, or lack of imagination is a horror too great to contemplate.

  Marshall Savage

  Ignorance, Moon, Night

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• I ain't looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Baby, Want

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed that Katharine Carr Esters claims that she was 'tricked' into divulging her true feelings about Oprah and that she now denies that she revealed to me the identity of Oprah's biological father.

  Kitty Kelley

  Father, Feelings, Identity

  "Oprah’s Aunt Katharine’s Denials May Be Pressure From Oprah" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2010.

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• People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.

  Ilya Ehrenburg

  Mistake, Past, People

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• The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Country, Rights, People

  "Senator Feinstein Supports Stronger Military Via Bill to End 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell'" by Craig Newmark, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2010.

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• People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.

  Robert Jensen

  Grief, People, Political

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• Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith.

  Brennan Manning

  Believe, Reality, Practice

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.11, Multnomah

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• It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.

  Terry Eagleton

  Evil, Laid Back, Existence

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• The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

  Paul de Man

  Criticism, Would Be, Movement

  Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.164, Routledge

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• As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much.

  Dylan McDermott

  Thinking, People, World

  "Dylan McDermott Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, His New Role on the Show, Why the Show Resonates with Viewers and Returning for Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 20, 2012.

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• Nay, do not grieve tho' life be full of sadness,
  Dawn will not veil her spleandor for your grief,
  Nor spring deny their bright, appointed beauty
  To lotus blossom and ashoka leaf.
  
  Nay, do not pine, tho' life be dark with trouble,
  Time will not pause or tarry on his way;
  To-day that seems so long, so strange, so bitter,
  Will soon be some forgotten yesterday.
  
  Nay, do not weep; new hopes, new dreams, new faces,
  The unspent joy of all the unborn years,
  Will prove your heart a traitor to its sorrow,
  And make your eyes unfaithful to their tears.

  Sarojini Naidu

  Life, Dream, Spring

  Sarojini Naidu (1916). “The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death & the Spring”

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• But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

  Talcott Parsons

  Facts, Failing, Reason

  Talcott Parsons (1967). “Structure of Social Action”, Free Pr

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• The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  Women, Mean, Practice

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• If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.

  Howard Gardner

  Lying, Hands, Would Be

  "Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner, Part I". Interview with Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• On several occasions, I discussed with Bill Clinton the subject of inquiries by the media about our relationship. He told me to continue to deny our relationship, that if we would stick together, everything would be okay.

  Gennifer Flowers

  Relationship, Media, Together

  "Declaration of Gennifer G. Flowers". www.washingtonpost.com. March 13, 1998.

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• I don't think any of my kids would have a good word to say about me. I think they deny that they even know me. At school, they pretend they are Anton du Beke's kids.

  Rob Brydon

  School, Kids, Thinking

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

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