“Professor, when people say such things after impossibility smacks them in the face, we call it denial” — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial. — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
Such self-denial 'may appear demanding,' but it will allow you, so to speak, to be and to breathe within the heart of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Denial does not change reality for everyone else. Only for the one denying and those who are foolish enough to believe the… — Elle Casey Copy Share Image
Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to… — Morarji Desai Copy Share Image
The first reaction to trauma is denial, then comes anger and finally, acceptance. I think the US is still between denial and… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right.… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I lived in New York for seven years, although I was always in denial about it. Even though I had an apartment… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
There is something childish and legalistic about churches in which all of the saints observe precisely the same standards. When all lives… — Walter J Chantry Copy Share Image
Life is already together, and what you have to experience is experiencing it being together. The striving to put it together is… — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go… — Tommy McCarthy Copy Share Image
“It was that culture of denial that allowed my abuse to take place to start with. Did you know that it wasn't… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that,… — Julian Sanchez Copy Share Image
Fury said to a mousethat he met in the houselet us both go to law; I will prosecute youlet there be no… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“No, Owen. That's what I am to you. I'm your best friend. But that's not what you're to me." He shook his… — Eli Easton Copy Share Image
“When first I was put into prison some people advised me to try and forget who I was. It was ruinous advice.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Society gives the image of sexual violators as weird, ugly, anti-social, alcoholics. Society gives the impression that violators kidnap children are out… — Rosenna Bakari Copy Share Image
More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.' — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
I am in denial about sport. I refuse to accept that I watch it. I am not the kind of man who… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of action that… — Shlomo Breznitz Copy Share Image
Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house… — Howard Sasportas Copy Share Image
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“I've been told there are five stages of grief, and if that's true, then he's stuck in stage one; denial.” — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“If there’s one thing I learned in Alanon, it’s that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when… — Vicki Covington Copy Share Image
Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Rejection does not hurt,but if expectation not fulfilled, it hurts.Lying does not hurt but denial does. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence,” — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
That moment when you know your friends are right but refuse to admit it to yourself because you dont want to lose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government. — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is… — Henry George Copy Share Image