There are no shadows in darkness. Shadows are created by light, and only exist in the presence of light. Refusing to acknowledge our shadow leads us to deny the presence of light in us.
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
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.
Denial does not change reality for everyone else. Only for the one denying and those who are foolish enough to believe the fantasy.
None of this is to deny that the Niger Delta has made mistakes. It has, and a good number at that. But then, mistakes are made to make wiser and therefore help in better decision making.
In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.
I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.
The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.
I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.
Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.
I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.
As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.
most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.
Don’t deny your emotions and force yourself to smile when you feel like crying. Cry, but learn to smile through your tears.
There are countless fantastic actors out there who are being denied the opportunity to play Broadway because they're not a name, and I think that's kind of wrong.
I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.
It's one thing to earnestly try but fail to bring the two sides together. Though Democrats will deny it, that was the case with George W. Bush.
