Deny Quotes
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When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and suddenly the officer is finding all manner of exotic contraband like the nature of God and identity, and while he can't deny that they're there, he can't for the life of him remember putting them there. In the end, a play is not the product of an idea; an idea is the product of a play.
Tom Stoppard -
Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.
Blaise Pascal
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There are just some things that you can't deny.
Zachary Cole Smith -
I think when you deny a part of yourself for so long and rediscover it, there is a release of feeling and a deeper awareness, a newfound energy.
Rekha Sharma -
You don't like dealing with somebody who denies horrible things happening to your people or threatens future horrible things to your people.
Barack Obama -
Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
Thomas Aquinas -
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 -
Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.
William Wallace
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I'm not like the Brexiteers. I don't deny that we have to permit immigration and the right of establishment for capital and services.
Geert Wilders -
I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.
Andrew Solomon -
I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.
Vladimir Nabokov -
All the best art and music feels like some type of truth - even if it's really simple - that you just can't deny. A listener can feel that.
Lauv -
How valiant to deny the importance of money when it is had in abundance.
Astra Taylor -
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
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The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.
George Bernard Shaw -
I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.
Courteney Cox -
Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
Benoit Mandelbrot -
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
George Orwell -
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
Seneca the Younger
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Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.
Carl Joachim Friedrich -
May God deny you peace but give you glory!
Miguel de Unamuno -
By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.
Martha Gellhorn -
He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
Seneca the Younger