Best 655 quotes in «denial quotes» category

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus of scientific experiments demonstrates, that is the beginning of the end of an informed democracy.

Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about to follow.

By looking the other way on climate change we facilitate a collective denial, and we do it for each other.

Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.

Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very childish forms of conceit in a world of infinitely whirling complexity. None of us can see enough from one corner of space-time to know "all" about the rest of space-time.

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

Denial is an ugly thing.

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

Denial is a save now, pay later scheme.

Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn.

Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.

Denis Law could dance on eggshells.

Denial was a weapon; it killed truth, numbed the mind, and I was a junkie.

[Donald Trump] has a huge mandate and they're still in denial and do not even know it yet.

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.

Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as the source of inconceivable inhumanity - the sad truth is our possession of an innate proclivity towards indifference, towards deliberate denial of mercy, towards disengaging all that is moral within us. But if that is too dire , let's call it evil. And paint it with fire and venom.

Farts come from no one and nowhere; they are anonymous emanations that belong to the group as a whole, and even when every person in the room can point to the culprit, the only sane course of action is denial.

Do not the angels differs from us in this respect, that they do not want so many things as we do? Therefore the less we need, the more we are on our way to them; the more we need, the more we sink down to this perishable life.

Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

Give me romance. Flash. Give me denial.

Great repressions create dualities.

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.

Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Hope is the denial of reality.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

Holocaust denial is not only a falsification of history, it is an expression of anti-Semitism.

Here I am in the state of New Mexico. George Bush is still in the state of denial. New Mexico has five electoral votes. The state of denial has none. I like my chances.

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

I didn't want to be the monster! I didn't want to kill this room full of harmless children! I didn't want to lose everything I'd gained in a lifetime of sacrifice and denial!

I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?

I don't spend a huge amount of time fixated on climate denial because I don't think that their objections, though sometimes couched in science, are based in science. I think they're based in ideology. And I don't think there's anything you can do.

I don't believe that climate-change fiction will change the mind of a denier because most of the deniers I've met are basically in a cult situation. It's a faith issue. It's not a rational issue. There's no fact that's going to change their mind. They simply believe in the cult of climate-change denial and it somehow feeds into the rest of the mythos of their own life story.

If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God’s.

If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.

I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.