#deny

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#courage #deny #ever #gay #i

If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#deny #disaster #how #insecure #least

Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#challenge #confront #control #crisis #debt

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. ↗

— George Santayana

#deny #else #ignore #living #monstrous

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#aspects #commercial #cultural #deny #disastrous

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#cannot #cries #deny #does #exist

It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own. ↗

— Anne Wilson Schaef

#another #deny #necessary #order #own

I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it! ↗

— Arnold Schoenberg

#cannot #deny #directly #i #i am

And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#america #because #breast cancer #cancer #companies

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence. ↗

— David Seabury

#cannot #comes #control #deny #disappears