Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.
Gary Nixon and I have had a loving, committed, faithful relationship for twenty-five years (now over 30) yet we are denied more than a thousand rights and protections that go automatically with marriage.
I can't imagine that anyone in Hollywood is sitting around trying to decide what actor is good or right or qualified for a role and is being denied a role because of their political views. I don't think that's the way Hollywood works. We're not living in an era of blacklisting.
Cancer is the growth of madness denied.
When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.
My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
He has denied what has happened. His sworn statements have denied what has happened.
But I knew one more thing. That people w ho denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.
I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.
Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.
What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten.
Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.
When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.
In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
. . . I feel far more hunger pangs when I am denied mental nourishment than I do at the loss of meals.
So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent. ” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis
As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.
Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.