OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design. The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly. - Ambrose Bierce
POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others. - Ambrose Bierce
For 70 years Democrats bitterly denied being "socialists". Bernie Sanders has done the service of exposing them. - A.E. Samaan
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."[, a Biography] - Mark Twain
Few emotions are more ephemeral in the political world than gratitude: appreciation for past favors. Far less ephemeral, however, is hope: the hope of future favors. Far less ephemeral is fear, the fear that in the future, favors may be denied. - Robert A. Caro
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. - Mark Twain
Justice delayed is democracy denied. - Robert F. Kennedy
The human spirit collapses not when it is deprived of food but when it is denied a dream.- , LifeBeyondNumbers - Andy Paula
When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw. - Nelson Mandela
Remember that when you say ‘I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange,’ you have denied America with that word. - Stephen Vincent Benét
I must go down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide, is a wild call and a clear call, that cannot be denied! - John Masefield
I support same-sex civil unions and I believe no should be denied their rights - George W. Bush
The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others. - Julian Bond
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire. - Ovid
When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. - Frederick Douglass
Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us. - Shannon L. Alder
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego. - Terence McKenna
I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all. - Jack Vance
Ultimately not one amongst usWill ever be denied that,The glimmer of a chance to shine. - Scott Hastie
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Whenever justice to ordinary men, widows, orphans, poor, disadvantaged and the general mass is delayed or denied, that leads to God’s frustration. At a time like that, God laments, WHERE IS A MAN - Sunday Adelaja
Holiness grants us access to God's blessings, for without it,ACCESS DENIED!!! - Seyi Ayoola
Destiny can never be denied. It takes time to unfold . - Osunsakin Adewale
When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself. - Deepak Chopra
Dear Mrs. Black: On seven prior occasions this company has denied your claim in writing. We now deny it for the eighth and final time. You must be stupid, stupid stupid, stupid! - John Grisham
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does - Torquato Tasso
This is a tale of woe. This is a tale of sorrow. A love denied, a love restored, to live beyond tomorrow. Lest we think silence is the place to hide a heavy heart, remember, to love and be loved is life itself without which we are nought. - Abi Morgan
Like the bud of a flower, change forces you to surrender to growth. It makes you vulnerable. It requires you to enlarge, expand and become bigger. Like the oxygen provided with each breath, we are denied its benefits until we relax and breathe in. - Stella Payton
Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. - Winston S. Churchill
As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. - Winston Churchill
Perhaps even atheism versus theism is an example of this principle that an apparent either/or can really be a both/and. For I suspect that the God you insist does not exist is probably a God I also insist does not exist; and perhaps the God I maintain does exist is a God you have never denied. - Peter Kreeft
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. - Mark Twain
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. - Unknown
I dream for an absentee and oft maligned device—the accident-maker, the soul-taker, my camera; its factory guaranteedthird eye, without which I am duly dimand memory denied. No picturesfor my contrived Arbus to declare, excepting some stitch of Sextonmanages these sentences of despair. - Kristen Henderson
He’d have denied it to his dying breath but Derwent wasn’t as tough as he pretended to be. For the very small number of people he cared about, Derwent would give his all. It made him vulnerable, and every now and then that vulnerability showed. - Jane Casey
To talk of humans as 'transcendent' is not to ascribe to them spiritual properties. It is, rather, to recognize that as subjects we have the ability to transform our selves, our natures, our world—an ability denied to any other physical being. - Kenan Malik
What is a truth and what is a lie? Is truth the mutually accepted part of a lie, or is lie a mutually denied part of truth? - Saurabh Sharma
The ability to live in a stable, safe environment that gives us the opportunity to create, grow and nurture our talents is sadly denied to many in the world today. I am proud to be able to say – as a leader – I can offer this to my people. - Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past. - Agathon
You have strength born of years of grief and anger... The strength of a man denied revenge. - Compton Gage
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. - Claud Cockburn
Justice delayed, is justice denied. - William Gladstone
I never denied being a fool. That's the difference between us. - Jennifer A. Nielsen
There is no equality while privileges enjoyed by the many are denied to the few. - Robert Cubitt
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. - Otto von Bismarck
The moon denied the wolf's friendship ... She wanted more out of her beast - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. - Frederick Douglass
A right delayed is a right denied. - Martin Luther King Jr.