Best Denies Lines
215 Denies quotes by 183 unique authors
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I am the Spirit that denies.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is…
— Seneca the Younger
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Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.
— Rajneesh
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Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?
— John Updike
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will…
— Ben Jonson
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
— Alexander Pope
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By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.
— Todd Akin
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I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I see not beyond death. ...…
— Robert E. Howard
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Sacred Scripture, since it has no science above itself, can dispute with one who denies its principles only if the opponent admits some at least…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
— Orson Welles
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free…
— Marco Rubio
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My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be…
— George Santayana
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The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master:…
— Lysander Spooner
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Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
— Paul Theroux
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
— Alice Walker
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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
— Simone Weil
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Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life,…
— David Mamet
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Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the…
— Michel Foucault
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The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
— Anais Nin
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Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own…
— Sydney J. Harris
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NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.
— Ambrose Bierce
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