In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

- C. Northcote Parkinson

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

- John Burroughs

You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

- Jesse Jackson

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

- Harvey Fierstein

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

- Garrett Hardin

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

- Garrison Keillor

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

- Gail Sheehy

I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.

- Fred Durst

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

- Dag Hammarskjold

I never deny a true experience in one shot.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We kind of deny the stages of life.

- Chuck Palahniuk

At the end of the day, it not only doesn't make logical sense to deny licenses to undocumented immigrants, it doesn't make financial sense.

- Cheech Marin

No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.

- Barney Oliver

I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it.

- Billy Carter

Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it.

- Bernie Siegel

Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.

- Benoit Mandelbrot

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

- Benjamin Disraeli

We deny and have always denied having the slightest link with al-Qaeda.

- Aslan Maskhadov

If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.

- Alice Walker