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Quotes About Denied

Perhaps the thing most denied to women is anger. Forbidden anger, women could find no voice in which publicly to complain; they took refuge in depression, writes Carolyn Heilbrun. Her words came true for me. Without the ability to allow or the means to adequately express the anger, I began to slide into periods of depression.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years.
~ Sibel Edmonds
I've been denied coverage two times in my life - and it's after I've been in a big successful rock band. And I've a lot of met people who've been denied coverage who don't have the resources to fight the insurance companies. And they shouldn't have to do that.
~ Mike McCready
Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government. I, for one, shall never accept that premise.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Childhood and the teen years are periods where diversity leads to discovery and, in the process, teaches. If that process is denied, we learn less and the stranglehold of ignorance breeds suspicion.
~ blackmun harry ii
Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.
~ Boris Trajkovski
Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."
~ William Butler Yeats
There is no sorrow like a love denied. Nor any joy like love that has its will.
~ Richard Hovey
for love may again be likened to a disease in this, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another.
~ Henry Fielding
One must admit that even among intellectuals there are sometimes highly intelligent men; this cannot be denied. (100)
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
If anything like this is true, then we would be denied even our self-congratulatory distinction of being the only animal that makes self-congratulatory distinctions.
~ Carl Sagan
Justice deferred is justice denied.
~ Diane Watson
The basic rule of learning machines is one we've already seen: turn on the juice to components which have a grip on the problem at hand and turn off the power to those components which just can't seem to understand. Inner-judges help decide whether the components in which they reside will be enriched or will be denied, then they aid in carrying out the sentence.
~ Howard Bloom
Treatments are very limited, and deinstitutionalization has resulted in increased homelessness and incarceration for this population. In many ways, deinstitutionalization is a crime against humanity: There is no other disease in which needed inpatient care is denied for political reasons.
~ Steven R. Pliszka
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Instead of turning loose these bogus asylum applicants onto the American streets never to be seen again, let's put them into mobile homes. Let's process their claims. Let's ship the judges in. Have the claims processed right there. As soon as their claim is denied, put them on a passenger plane and fly them right back home.
~ Kris Kobach
When I became King Barrett, the influence I had in the character was taken away. I was told, 'This is your outfit, and here is your promo that you have to say word-for-word.' Any time I tried to tweak the storyline because I thought it wasn't working, or because it wasn't me, I was denied.
~ Wade Barrett
Yeah, I actually went to college. I went to Southwest Community College in Memphis; I tried to go to TSU, and they denied me.
~ Yo Gotti
The familiar rage was back, warming her from the inside out. It was the rage of a woman repeatedly ignored and overlooked, denied her due, mistaken for just another enjoyable mistake the morning after
~ Charles Stross
Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they're stamped with an eviction record. Moms and kids are bearing the brunt of those consequences.
~ Matthew Desmond
How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.
~ Kevin Brockmeier
To be denied was like getting shut out of a Public Park.
~ J.R. Ward
Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.
~ Jack London