Quotes with denying

  • If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. You're not paying attention to what's happening in the universe around you.
  • When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bernard Bailyn Everyone knew that democracy-direct rule by all the people-required such spartan, self-denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely to survive only where poverty made upright behavior necessary for the perpetuation of the race.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Carl Levin If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Bill Nye If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. You're not paying attention to what's happening in the universe around you.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Harold J. Smith More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.
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  • Virginia Woolf Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • A. E. Housman Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Bob Barr Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • David Harold Fink Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.
    David Harold Fink
    American author
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Laurence Sterne We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Brian Austin Green When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Bennet Omalu Yes, the concept that blunt-force trauma of the head causes brain damage is a generally accepted principle of medicine. That is why I was so appalled by the NFL doctors who were denying my work.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us - everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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