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Quotes About Denied

Your motion is still denied, but I just want you to know I'm very impressed with your creativity.
~ David Gerrold
You don't much think it did," said Alvin Hooks. "Your opinion is otherwise, it appears. But on what do you base your opinion, sir? You have not denied that my scenario is plausible. You have not denied that this premeditated murder might have happened in precisely the fashion I have just described, have you, Mr. Gillanders—have you?" "No, I haven't," Josiah said. "But—" "No further questions," said Alvin Hooks.
~ David Guterson
I crawled through the walls of every social taboo I could come across. I wanted to celebrate everything we are denied through structure of laws or physical force. I just did it quietly and anonymously.
~ David Wojnarowicz
The boys could have been many things had they not been ruined by that place. Doctors who cured diseases or perform brain surgery, inventing shit that saves lives. Run for president. All those lost geniuses - sure not all of them were geniuses, Chickie Pete for example was not solving special relativity - but they had been denied even the simple pleasure of being ordinary. Hobbled and handicapped before the race even began, never figuring out how to be normal.
~ Colson Whitehead
In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.
~ Thomas Frank
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
Poor man! Is your curiosity so hot for what you've been denied? And you men put the blame on Eve and excuse Adam.
~ Unknown
Hope is ever the greatest luxury of the helpless, the capacity to suppose knowledge that circumstances denied.
~ R. Scott Bakker
Gentle he would be, denied he would not.
~ Diana Gabaldon
As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's convention without the national media protesting it.
~ Robert Casey
If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied.
~ Tomas Borge
But for all that we had, for all the luxury to which we were accustomed, we were both denied love, and this deficiency would be scorched into our futures lives like an ill-considered tattoo inscribed on the buttocks after a drunken night out, leading each of us inevitably toward isolation and disaster.
~ John Boyne
were both denied love, and this deficiency would be scorched into our future lives like an ill-considered tattoo inscribed on the buttocks after a drunken night out, leading each of us inevitably towards isolation
~ John Boyne
Apology accepted, trust denied.
~ Unknown
Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end denied Makes welcomer yet the death that's to be died.
~ Stevie Smith, Selected Poems
We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.
~ Charles Olson
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
~ Ovid
She knew exactly how he was feeling, because experience had taught her that the kind of excitement she was feeling at that moment was never, ever one-sided. On the contrary, she knew that it was born of acute and mutual anticipation, and she knew, too, that it would not be denied.
~ Unknown
Her voice sounded like a symphony after years of being denied any music
~ Unknown
So these villains, who call themselves governments, well understand that their power rests primarily upon money. With money they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort money. And, when their authority is denied, the first use they always make of money, is to hire soldiers to kill or subdue all who refuse them more money.
~ Lysander Spooner
When she was denied entry at Inverness, she lodged for the night in the town
~ John Guy
Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.
~ John L. Lewis
The reason that people do not have a rich, beautiful faith is that their spirit is denied the privilege of communion and fellowship with the Father.
~ John G. Lake
Privilege is provisional. Privilege can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly and summarily withdrawn. Entitlement is impervious to the kinds of verbs that modify privilege. Our people have had to work, scrape for privilege, gobble it down when those who would snatch it away weren't looking. Keep a close watch.
~ Margo Jefferson