Deny Quotes

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

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

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

We've also seen another future we could choose. First of all, we'd have the right to choose. It's an America in which no one can charge us more than men for the exact same health insurance; in which no one can deny us affordable access to the cancer screenings that could save our lives; in which we decide when to start our families.

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.

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

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite.

I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.

It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

But either way you cannot deny the sales and what we did.

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

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

I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

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.

In terms of my Indianness, I try not to rely on it nor deny it. When it comes up organically in my writing, we can address it. About five years ago, we wrote this episode of 'The Office,' called 'Diwali,' which seemed like an organic way of using it.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

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

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes.

Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender.