Best 655 quotes in «denial quotes» category

If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.

I'm in total celebrity denial in general, but there's awareness that probably if somebody has met you, they might go and tell somebody. I just would rather have the word on the street stay at a neutral, not like, "She shows up in a ball gown," but "She seemed nice." That's fine.

I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.

I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.

Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.

I'm very much in denial that I can't dance. I really go for it, which is almost more embarrassing.

In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.

Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies

Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.

In the denial of that disorder there is order.

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

I so wreak of logic and commonsense that it is obviously very refreshing in this world of otherwise soulless politically correct denial and dishonesty. God knows America would be the greatest again if she operated like the Nugent family. No takers, no whiners, no gangsters, no dopers, no drunks, no criminals, no bloodsuckers, no excuse makers, no crybabies, no punks, no Obama supporters. My entire team are dedicated to be the absolute best that we can be and as productive as humanly possible. Wouldn't that be great if all of America were like that.

I think all of us are living in denial of our spiritual nature as we continue to participate in the material world even though we know we're destroying the planet we live on.

I think the US is in a terrible state of denial. Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Gotterdammerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong.

I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.

It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.

I will usually be in denial about that, too, because I really don't like that. Sometimes I will recognize it and sometimes someone will say, "are you okay?" And then you think, "Oh, maybe I'm not.

It is the lack of knowledge of, or the unwillingness to recognise, or the deliberate denial of the existence of the serial bully which is the most common reason for an unsatisfactory outcome for both employee and employer.

Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

It's so much easier to get high than how scary it must be to see who you actually are and take responsibility for it. Denial is an easy place to live in.

It wasn't government that gave us nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and denials for pre-existing conditions. It wasn't government that gave us the yearly and lifetime caps on insurance coverage that have sent so many people into bankruptcy when they've faced a serious illness or accident... It wasn't government that gave us a system in which the gap between what we spend and what we get is so enormous. It was the free market.

Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.

I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.

Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.

Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect to patriarchy, then her only option becomes deviance. I chose deviance. I chose to be a loving dissident. To dance the dance of dissidence. This stance can be assumed from the inside or the outside. Whichever place we choose, the important thing is having the sustained will to be, act, and speak from the ground of our feminine souls.

Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

Metaphorically, the body becomes a machine to be driven or a garbage dump to be avoided. At the same time, the magnificent Mother in whose womb we live is mindlessly poisoned and raped. Surely, our insane denial has to be perceived and acted upon.

Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

Never underestimate the power of denial.

Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.