A Quote by James Carroll

The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

James Carroll

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Comfort Ease Human May Personal Pleasure Progress Repose Rest Richer Story Tale Today Tomorrow Whole

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James Carroll
American - Author
Born: January 22, 1943

That mystic clasp of love lies not on the threshold but at the end of spiritual life, and can be reached for the most part only after much spiritual exercising, many denials, self-denials, watchings, and, it may be, the Cross of pain and disillusionment.

Vincent McNabb

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

Mikhail Lermontov

God's delay's are not His denials

John Hagee

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

Ronald Reagan

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

Charles Caleb Colton

People tend to believe accusations more than denials.

Mary McMullen

I issued a number of denials to people I thought needed to hear them

William J. Clinton

Know this: God’s delays are not necessarily His denials. So keep praying.

Greg Laurie

Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.

Demosthenes

The creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs from the inability to accept the standardized cultural denials of the real nature of experience. And the price of this kind of almost "extra human" creativity is to live on the brink of madness, as men have long known.

Ernest Becker

I was talking to a TV bigwig, and he said, 'Nobody under 35 knows who Sammy Davis is.' Well, you'll hear angry denials of that from younger people.

Leslie Bricusse

The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.

Vanna Bonta

We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.

Lane Evans

It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that the most prominent retraction never quite undoes the damage done by the original publication.