Deny Quotes - Page 40

• Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

  Aesop

  Trying, May, Impossible

  Aesop (2007). “Aesop's Fables”, p.178, Penguin UK

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• I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Too Much, Possibility

  Letter to Herbert Spencer, March 22, 1886.

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• Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.

  Steig Larsson

  Falling In Love, Want, Might

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• I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Intelligent, Views, Laughing

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.160, Collector's Library

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• Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, People, Greed

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.99, Profile Books

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• I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Thinking, Long

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.307, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• God the Eternal Father did not give [the] first great commandment because He needs us to love Him. His power and glory are not diminished should we disregard, deny, or even defile His name. His influence and dominion extend through time and space independent of our acceptance, approval, or admiration."No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God!"For what we love determines what we seek."What we seek determines what we think and do."What we think and do determines who we are—and who we will become.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Father, Independent, Acceptance

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• Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Atheist, Real, Fighting

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1999.

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• We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the half-world, and perhaps worlds beyond, than we can grasp. We always knew that. We can’t even stop children from dying, how would we presume to understand the truth of things? Behind things? Does the presence of one power deny another? [p. 176]

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Children, Knowing, Soul

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Sailing to Sarantium: Book One of the Sarantine Mosaic”, p.153, Penguin

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• You told me once, long ago, to look into a mirror and see your face. I refused to then. But now Mnimi has forced me to look at my own reflection. I’ve seen it through my eyes and I’ve seen it through yours. I wish to the gods that I could change what happened between us. If I could go back, I would never deny you. But I can’t. We both know that. Now I just want the chance to know you as I should have known you all those centuries ago. (Styxx)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Eye, Reflection, Mirrors

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• I'm infatuated with you, I cannot deny it. Physically speaking, you're a very attractive man. But I don't like you, the vast majority of the time. So far as I can gather, you behave abominably in public and are only marginally better in private. I only find you remotely tolerable when you're kissing me.

  Tessa Dare

  Kissing, Men, Majority

  Tessa Dare (2010). “One Dance with a Duke”, p.85, Ballantine Books

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• Come from the heart, the true heart, not the head. When in doubt, choose the heart. This does not mean to deny your own experiences and that which you have empirically learned through the years. It means to trust your self to integrate intuition and experience. There is a balance, a harmony to be nurtured, between the head and the heart. When the intuition rings clear and true, loving impulses are favored.

  Brian Weiss

  Heart, Mean, Self

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• The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?

  Mercedes Lackey

  Teacher, Brother, Lost Love

  Mercedes Lackey (2016). “The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy”, p.188, Penguin

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• This law … defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.

  Daniel Quinn

  War, Law, Community

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.129, Bantam

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• This is the crucifixion of Christ: in which He dies again and again in the individuals who were made to share the joy and freedom of His grace, and who deny Him.

  Thomas Merton

  Crucifixion Of Christ, Joy, Grace

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.

  Thomas Aquinas

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• It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth.

  Antonin Sertillanges

  Interesting, Choices, Mind

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• Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.

  Jodi Picoult

  Ignorance, Walking Through Life, Trying

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.579, Simon and Schuster

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• She lifted her head. "It's easier," she said, slowly, "to be angry on someone else's behalf than on my own. And yet I find I have a well of anger in me, that I have been filling for years from my own hurts. If I spill it out in defense of another, I can deny it's mine.

  Emma Bull

  Hurt, Years, Defense

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• If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance.

  Glen Cook

  Fighting, Men, Guy

  Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.79, Macmillan

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• Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?

  Alan Lightman

  Life, Future, Two

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• There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. -(from "The Bicentennial Man) story)

  Isaac Asimov

  Men, Mind, Desire

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• To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Farewell, Men, Play

  Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• We mustn't claim to stand for our King but then deny Him by living a fleshly existence. Our King's Mighties don't shy away from the blazing searchlight of God's Word, but rather, willingly expose their souls and cry, 'Dear King, if there be anything that stands between You and me, if there be anything that shrouds Your glory, if there be anything that will weaken my sword in battle, purge it, slay it, utterly destroy it!

  Eric Ludy

  Kings, Soul, Battle

  Eric Ludy, Leslie Ludy (2009). “Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God”, p.147, Harvest House Publishers

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• We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.

  David Sheff

  Problem, Loved Ones, Naive

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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