Denied Quotes
587 Denied quotes by 481 unique authors
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's own, Who labours,…
— Lord Byron
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the…
— Frederick Douglass
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..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was better when you…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You have to open…
— Karen Armstrong
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Hate. Huh. He'd never hated himself. If anything, he'd always liked himself a little too much. Once, a human female had even accused him of…
— Gena Showalter
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Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
— Piers Anthony
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Human will is the strongest will ever created. There are those who are born to succeed and those who are determined to succeed. The former…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived…
— James A. Baldwin
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Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires weren’t the only…
— Deborah Harkness
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He sank into that kiss, and fed from me like a starving man holding off famine. I drank from his soul in preparation for the…
— Rachel Vincent
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Curran struck at my wrist. His fingers were cat-quick, but I had spent my life honing my reflexes, and he missed. “Well, look at that.”…
— Ilona Andrews
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SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? “I…
— Terry Pratchett
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The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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Gentle he would be, denied he would not.
— Diana Gabaldon
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Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
— Alan Moore
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We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The…
— Terence McKenna
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When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.
— Deepak Chopra
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If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes…
— Abraham Maslow
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When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when…
— William James
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Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid." "What is? Love, or my question?" "I don't know." "You don't know? You've tried that trick…
— Rick Yancey
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She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got…
— Oscar Wilde
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If any man would come after me, let him deny himself." The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said of Christ when…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
— Winston Churchill
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In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life…
— Iain Pears
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A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Who Wrote These Denied Quotes
481 authors contributed a total of 587 Denied Quotes, led by these top contributors: