Deny Quotes

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

To deny our own impulses, is to deny the very thing that makes us human.

To no one will we sell, or deny, or delay, right or justice. [40].

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.

What's wrong with gossip? We all live on it, but we deny it; we're hypocrites.

I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.

It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own.

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds.

I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

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

It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.

I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.