Deny Quotes

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.

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

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

We have evidence that a number of Bahrainis who oppose our government are being trained in Syria. I have seen the files and we have notified the Syrian authorities, but they deny any involvement.

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.

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000.

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he's in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he's swinging through the city.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

Strong efforts may be made to deny the place, to silence the authentic, but the spirit of things will break through that silence.

I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.

On several occasions, I discussed with Bill Clinton the subject of inquiries by the media about our relationship. He told me to continue to deny our relationship, that if we would stick together, everything would be okay.

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

I can't deny that some customers and prospects think it's the key to our future. But it's not. We're certainly supportive of the Dept. of Justice and the 20 states that have brought this action.

I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

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

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

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

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

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