Deny Quotes
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I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.
Vladimir Nabokov
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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
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To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.
Charles Nodier
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There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontologist..denies that this is so. It is simply a fact, Darwin's theory and the fossil record are in conflict.
David Berlinski
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He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
Seneca the Younger
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But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.
William H. Seward
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To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace.
R. C. Sproul, Jr.
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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Seneca the Younger
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Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.
Albert Camus
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Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.
Ian Mcewan
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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
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How I adore you, Marya. How well I chose. Scold me; deny me. Tell me you want what you want and damn me forever. But don’t leave me.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.
Emile Chartier
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I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.
Stephen Dunn
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You are always wanting miracles; but God sows miracles by handfuls under your feet, and yet you still have people who deny their existence.
Allan Kardec
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To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.
George C. Lorimer
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Nothing guarantees our freedom. Deny it often enough and one day it will be gone, and we'll not know how or when.
Allen Wheelis
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We can't coherently deny, or even decline to affirm, that we are free.
Allen W. Wood
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We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
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It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me.
David Bowie
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I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.
Joshua Lederberg
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Do not deny God. Do not blaspheme God. Do not murder. Do not engage in incest, adultery, pederasty or bestiality. Do not steal. Do not eat of a live animal. Establish courts/legal system to ensure obedience to the law.
Noah
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To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.
David Bentley