Quotes of Denied - somelinesforyou

“ So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied. ”

- Helen Keller

“ This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. ”

- Aristotle

“ When God made up this world of ours, He made it long and wide, and meant that it should shelter all, And none should be denied. ”

- Carrie Jacobs Bond

“ We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. ”

- James Baldwin

“ We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. ”

- Ovid

“ Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. ”

- Jonathan Raban

“ Not to ask is not be denied. ”

- John Dryden

“ Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. ”

- Nadia Boulanger

“ It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts. ”

- Carl Jung

“ A right delayed is a right denied. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ The delay of our dreams does not mean that they have been denied. ”

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

“ The secret cause of all suffering is mortality itself, which is the prime condition of life. It cannot be denied if life is to be affirmed. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote. ”

- Alice Paul

“ In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. ”

- Eldridge Cleaver

“ Never again will a million African Americans be denied the right to exercise their vote in the United States of America. ”

- John F. Kerry

“ But I was denied a record contract for 15 years, so I'm not going to be too picky about what I do. I don't have the juice to say no too many times. ”

- Buddy Guy

“ Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. ”

- Unknown

“ What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire. ”

- Ovid

“ I did send to you for certain sums of gold, which you denied me. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving, has but glanced at the joys of charity. ”

- Anne Swetcbine

“ God never denied that soul anything that went as far as heaven to ask it. ”

- John Trapp

“ All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. ”

- Wallace Stevens

“ A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied. ”

- Baltasar Gracian

“ Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. ”

- Claud Cockburn

“ Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut. ”

- Benjamin J. Montalbano

“ When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied. ”

- Hubert Humphrey

“ Justice delayed, is justice denied. ”

- William Gladstone
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