#deny

Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write. ↗

— Alfred Edward Housman

#content #denying #endowed #him #nature

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#air #because #cannot #deny #existence

I'm not going to deny the fact that I've tried pot. I hated it. ↗

— Lindsay Lohan

#fact #going #hated #i #pot

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#come #deny #down #fast #get

To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#level #predictive #race #unrealistic #validity

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#between #deny #difference #frauds #i

There's no excuse, it's just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as soon as the press rang me I didn't deny it I just said 'that's it' and I had to go home and explain it. ↗

— John Prescott

#excuse #explain #go #go home #had

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#ageism #basic #being #community #deny

Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the respectable Beltway variety and he will twist himself into a pretzel denying it. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#answer #any #ask #beltway #both

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#act #any #comes #deny #easily