Denies Quotes

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker

Friend, Person, Silence

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
Orson Welles

Genius, Everybody, Nobody

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
B. R. Ambedkar

Life, Religion, Equality

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
George Santayana

Men, True, Human

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.
Marco Rubio

Free, Poverty, Nation

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Simone Weil

Opinions, Role, Merely

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Denial, Performer, Highly

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
Paul Theroux

Life, Chance, Second

Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
Don Marquis

Makes, Beer, Cry

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Far, Fill, Void

No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years. It denies inner-city kids the critical-thinking skills to interrogate reality.
Jonathan Kozol

Reality, Between, Kids

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.
L. Ron Hubbard

Person, Others, Rights

Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.
Paul Theroux

Life, Second, Fiction

Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.
Michael Haneke

Experience, Simple, End

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
Talcott Parsons

Person, Him, Reason

Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.
Theodor Herzl

Today, Nation, Makes

I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed that Katharine Carr Esters claims that she was 'tricked' into divulging her true feelings about Oprah and that she now denies that she revealed to me the identity of Oprah's biological father.
Kitty Kelley

True, Father, Feelings

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.
Alan Autry

Marriage, Woman, Between

If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.
Richard Holbrooke

Country, Become, Greater

This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.
John T. Flynn

Enemy, American, Dangerous

The Iranian regime gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon.
Moshe Katsav

Trying, While, Support

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
Margaret Deland

Spiritual, Sense, Common

No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution.
Michael Newdow

Person, Office, Shall

Yes, yes, no one denies, for example, that you're going to be able to fix the Murray through the Living Murray process without money, no one denies that.
John Anderson

Money, Through, Living

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.
Bess Truman

Against, Talent, Action

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
Paul de Man

Nature, Writing, After

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
Paul de Man

Modern, Appear, Critical

So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
Henry Vaughan

Great, Spring, Earth

Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record.
John Edward Redmond

Place, Here, Her

Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.
Walter Rauschenbusch

Life, Faith, Men

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