I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.
Yeah, I actually went to college. I went to Southwest Community College in Memphis; I tried to go to TSU, and they denied me.
The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation, since the saving grace is turned into ashes and holiness departs.
Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.
Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are denied access.
Marriage is not defined by who is denied it. When gay people share in the freedom to marry, it doesn't change your marriage.
But I knew one more thing. That people w ho denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.
Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.
A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and in the world at large, in a manner at present denied us
That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.
We have a plan that creates universal access programs at the state level which allows folks to access insurance if they're denied by their insurer.
Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.
We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.
I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.
Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time.
Justice too long delayed is justice denied.
Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they're stamped with an eviction record. Moms and kids are bearing the brunt of those consequences.
Canadians would not tolerate it if they really knew there was a whole generation of aboriginal Canadians who have a chance at a better education and are being denied it.
I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is nothing lost in translation here, it's obvious that's wrong.
Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want
When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand.
Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.
I'll always push for what I believe in. That's what you're supposed to do. If you're an American, you're supposed to be part of the political process, especially if you've been denied it.
My home is a place of warmth and love. No one should be denied a home.
I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.
Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.
A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.
I denied my comic thing there for awhile. I always made people laugh, but my family said that's not the real world, I had to put on a suit and tie and be serious.
If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.
It is true that all of the current presidential candidates once denied that they had any intention of running. But the fact that I am also a liar, doesn't make me a candidate.
You need to have that killer instinct. It can't be taught. Where does it come from? A couple slaps. A couple things you had denied to you.
A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.
No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.
That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied.
No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.
When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.
No parent should be denied from their Scouting - their son's Scouting experience simply because those parents happen to be gay.
We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.
It's a tough pill to swallow being denied something because of my gender. That's not something I can go home and work on and fix.
No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.
Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits of his labor.
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.
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.
She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.
As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.
If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's convention without the national media protesting it.
Where laws recognize rights to collective bargaining, the truth is that employee rights to negotiate with employers are denied in many countries.
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make - it would hope - put a free press's mind at ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see.
So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.
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.
Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.
I am crazy for dessert. I eat everything. No one should be denied anything... just don't eat the whole thing.
Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
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