We Deny Quotes
61 We Deny quotes by 54 unique authors
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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
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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
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Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
— Cullen Hightower
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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
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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
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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
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Quite simply, when we deny our children nature, we deny them beauty.
— Richard Louv
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.
— David Sheff
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect.
— Richard Carlson
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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
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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
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We deny and have always denied having the slightest link with al-Qaeda.
— Aslan Maskhadov
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If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.
— Paul Martin
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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
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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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