Denied Quotes
587 Denied quotes by 481 unique authors
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All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy,…
— John Lydon
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If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give…
— Jose Marti
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their…
— Barack Obama
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
— Francois Rabelais
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Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided…
— Robert Redford
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Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom.…
— Mitt Romney
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
— Salman Rushdie
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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
— Friedrich Schiller
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Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
— George Bernard Shaw
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the…
— Susan Sontag
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Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to…
— Adora Svitak
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True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.
— Torquato Tasso
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In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God,…
— Desmond Tutu
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
— Mark Twain
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Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.
— Carter G. Woodson
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But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those…
— Muhammad Yunus
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New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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No one who strives with full faith and heart for the blessings of eternal life will be denied. And how great will be the joy…
— Henry B. Eyring
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To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see…
— Henry B. Eyring
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The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection…
— John Ralston Saul
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If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had…
— Italo Calvino
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Someone Hot is sometimes can't be the person they appear to be- except for their hotness... that cannot be denied.
— Meg Cabot
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When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
— Nelson Mandela
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The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you.…
— Caroline Knapp
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