We Deny Quotes

61 We Deny quotes by 54 unique authors

A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we… — Donald C. Peattie
We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways… — Franklin P. Adams
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose. — Cullen Hightower
We applaud the people who are film stars, who get elected to an office, who are very athletic, the small group who play with power… — Frederick Lenz
If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable… — Marshall Savage
The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their… — Dianne Feinstein
Quite simply, when we deny our children nature, we deny them beauty. — Richard Louv
Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country,… — Daniel Defoe
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. — Henry Miller
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to… — Henry Miller
What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we… — Margaret Atwood
We cannot know what faith is if we have never had it, and we cannot obtain it as long as we deny it. Faith and… — Thomas S. Monson
We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know. — David Sheff
Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we come from, where… — Libba Bray
When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our… — Rob Bell
So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When… — Carol S. Dweck
By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines… — Sam Harris
We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect. — Richard Carlson
None of us wants to admit that we hate someone... When we deny our hate we detour around the crisis of forgiveness. We suppress our… — Lewis B. Smedes
We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion what is and what is not their 'proper sphere.' The… — Unknown Author
We deny and have always denied having the slightest link with al-Qaeda. — Aslan Maskhadov
If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it. — Paul Martin
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize it, than to… — Henry Miller
I think we can't go 'round measuring our goodness by what we don't do, what we deny ourselves, what we resist, and who we exclude.… — Ritu Ghatourey

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