Quotes About Denying

Look at those mountains. They go straight up, smooth as a politician denying he ever made a campaign promise.

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

For with every snatched glance (I was trying to keep my eyes on the road) I felt that I was being offered a glimpse of something new and unthinkable, something that I had been needlessly denying myself, now, for many years: a future.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

Denying the existence of God leads us to preposterous conclusions so that, in the end, the amoral world of the skeptic who simply cannot explain good is worse than the world of the theist who has an explanation for evil.

The costs are worth paying to achieve a better society, but denying that the costs exist, while satisfying to the soul and politically correct, is not scientifically defensible.

Resistance to stereotyping is a laudable moral position, but the simplistic idea that the resistance is costless is wrong. The costs are worth paying to achieve a better society, but denying that the costs exist, while satisfying to the soul and politically correct, is not scientifically defensible.

What I loved were books that heightened the sense of life's wonders without denying the complexity and horror that sometimes accompanied those wonders.

We have a government that boasts about free education. Those of us who have scratched below the surface know it is costing us by denying opportunities for others to attend college or university.

Training can get on a man's nerves. There is no profit or use in denying it.

If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.

Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions.

The power of our beliefs can work in either direction to become life affirming or life denying.

Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.

The survival of ISIS's ideology is success enough for them. We must spare no effort in denying ISIS this success.

Or accomplish anything," Naomi said, rolling her eyes. "Oh, they're accomplishing plenty. They're compiling influence. They're emerging from the crowd." "Gaining 'likes.' Getting 'retweeted.'" "That's part of it. No point denying it." "Building their brands. Getting famous.

Never be ashamed of your love," he said gently. "The only thing to be ashamed of is denying your love. That is what makes the shadow grow within your heart; that is the darkening of the Light. And we all have many loves.

Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.

The fact is, and there's no denying it, realism... is supposed to make one uneasy.

So much organized religion, in my opinion, ends up being life-denying.

Many are called impious, not for having a worse, but a different religion from their neighbors; and many atheistical, not for the denying of God, but for thinking somewhat peculiarly concerning him.

With his sunglasses gone and his scarf hanging down, there was no denying that he had no flesh, he had no skin, he had no eyes and he had no face. All he had was a skull for a head.

My Body is a wide house A commune Of bickering women, hearing their own breathing denying each other. (House of Changes)