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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• In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

  J. L. Austin

  Responsibility, Reality, Defense

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• How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

  Curt Weldon

  Veterans Day, Truth, Ethos

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• Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Rights, Government, Doe

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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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• To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Race, Ethos, Levels

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• Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers.

  Darren Johnson

  Ethos, Action, Barriers

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

  William H. Seward

  Men, Ethos, Constitution

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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