Denied Quotes

587 Denied quotes by 481 unique authors

Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys.… — David Gerrold
This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity… — Robert Bolt
It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and… — Wallace Stegner
Heaven's brightest and best-loved angel, who was cast out for inspiring a rebellion against God. Having lost Heaven, Lucifer and his rebel angels vowed to… — Libba Bray
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by… — Virginia Woolf
Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied… — Richard Wright
The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you to practice the… — Sheri L. Dew
So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied. — Helen Keller
If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied. — William Shakespeare
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… — Ezra Taft Benson
Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out.… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan… — Nicholas Sparks
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in… — Albert Einstein
I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who… — Anne Bronte
Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas. — Ambrose Bierce
But I knew one more thing. That people w ho denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger. — Janet Fitch
My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to… — Charles Bukowski
There was a very cautious man Who never laughed or played He never risked, he never tried, He never sang or prayed. And when he… — John C. Maxwell
Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real monarch and we… — Salman Rushdie
American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy,… — Philip Roth
I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath… — Richard Wright
Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his… — Mircea Eliade
Celebration of the Human Voice--- When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice.… — Eduardo Galeano
What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure… — Italo Calvino
Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want — Hunter S. Thompson

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