#denied

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. ↗

— Nadia Boulanger

#cleaning #denied #lack #life #masterpiece

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. ↗

— James Baldwin

#deeds #denied #even #experience #finding

Justice delayed is justice denied. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#delayed #denied #justice

I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard. ↗

— Hans Blix

#armed #certainly #denied #destruction #fear

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way. ↗

— John Burns

#been #come #denied #events #forward

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#allowed #basic #basic human rights #blacks #cruelty

I've never denied my sexual orientation. I just don't make a point of it. It isn't what I do. Clearly, I'm known for the work I've done on trade and Social Security. ↗

— Jim Kolbe

#denied #done #i #i do #just

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents. ↗

— Barack Obama

#agents #around #been #decades #denied

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#affront #anything #cannot #consolations #controlled

Inside every adult male is a denied little boy. ↗

— Nancy Friday

#boy #denied #every #inside #little