Quotes About Denying

Most of us make our minds like spoilt children, allowing them to do whatever they want. Therefore it is necessary that Kriya-yoga should be constantly practised, in order to gain control of the mind, and bring it into subjection. The obstructions to Yoga arise from lack of control, and cause us pain. They can only be removed by denying the mind, and holding it in check, through the means of Kriya-yoga.

As Speaker, I passed protections for Mainers with pre-existing conditions to prevent insurance companies from denying them coverage - that's the kind of leadership we need in Washington.

It was deep afternoon when shadows begin to grow, light becomes gold, and you realize that this particular day has reached its destiny. Like old age, it's not yet over, but there's no denying the time of day.

The problem is: income inequality is getting greater. There is no denying that. But this is not a distinction between Owner / Employee. This is a distinction between those with the Rich Employee mindset versus those with the Poor Employee mindset.

Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.

Well, I am denying it. You think the world revolves around sex. It's pathetic.

We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.

I knew that monsters were far more gentle and more desirable than the monsters living inside 'nice people.' Accepting that you are a monster gives you the leeway to not behave like one. When you deny being a monster, you behave like one.

Some carry out their work explicitly denying that it is a revolution; others deliberately use Kuhn's language of paradigm shifts to describe the changes they witness.

Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.

My sister lives in Oklahoma. And, you know, it is so shocking that James Inhofe, the foremost climate-denying senator, is from the state that is so deeply climate-affected.

The movement has kept itself from full development by denying, ignoring, and rejecting parts of itself, including its spiritual legacy.

It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.

That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

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

You kissed me last night." There was no denying that. "I did." "And if I were to return the favor?" his asked, voice low and husky. Her eyes locked on his mouth. "It would probably be the polite thing to do.

A mistake doesn't make you a fool, but denying it surely makes you one.

Much as I detest the man, I'll never know the full circumstances behind his choices. Life is muddy. Denying that—thinking there's only one noble path above the fray—can be a poisonous approach to life.

It is useful to remember, however, that neglecting valid stereotypes inevitably results in suboptimal judgments. 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.

Silence is the best answer you can give to an issue. What's the use of admitting, denying and to justify, when you have been already judged.

Nothing so provokes God as unbelief, for this means denying God directly and thus committing idolatry.

A man flirting with bankruptcy had no business thinking of a woman. Which of course hadn't stopped him. And it was all the worse because, strange as it was to see her dressed up in manly clothes, there was no denying that the woman made a pair of britches look mighty fetching. He'd stayed away from her, and when he couldn't, he'd hid his interest in cool words.

I confess that everything I oppose, so to speak, in my texts, everything that I deconstruct—presence, voice, living, voice and so on—is exactly what I am after in life. I love the voice, I love presence, I love…; there is no love, no desire without it. So, I'm constantly denying, so to speak, in my life what I'm saying in my books or my teaching….

Faithful Christian living involves a paradox: our faith is both world-affirming and world-denying. World-affirming