#deny

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. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#admit #any #bad #briefly #defence

All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying. ↗

— Richard Barnfield

#defying #denying #dying #faith #heart

I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa? ↗

— Marion Berry

#am #because #city #deny #i

If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#another #broad #certain #certain things #company

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision. ↗

— Jane Campion

#directors #feminine #happening #i #states

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#basketball #become #blacks #deny #dominant

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#am #denying #grim #humanity #i

One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#bottom line #capacity #deliver #deny #destruction

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage. ↗

— Frances Conroy

#deny #face #family #heritage #more

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#controlling #denying #equality #full #her