The first step in the risk management process is to acknowledge the reality of risk. Denial is a common tactic that substitutes… — Charles Tremper Copy Share Image
“Oh, because you’re an alcoholic.” Only when I heard those words did it filter through my own denial. Only then did I… — David W Earle Copy Share Image
Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God; and, by making you his partner, interests you in all his happiness. — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
When we turn our backs on feelings we should deal with, they fester and grow and ultimately consume us. Silence is denial.… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens. — Russ Potts Copy Share Image
Rejection doesnt hurt, expectations does. Lying doesnt kill, denial does & forgetting doesnt heal forgiveness does.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
We're all in denial from time to time. We all see things that are too painful to really deal with. But this… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
“You can hold on to the smallest doubt and take comfort in it, stay in denial and go on with your carefree… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social… — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering,… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort. Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the… — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image
“I used to pray you know, pray to God that He would somehow stop it. All the nights of listening to my… — Emily Andrews Copy Share Image
Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful; without free speech progress… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
“A refusal on the part of psychiatrists and therapists to validate the horrors of their patients' tortured past implies a refusal to… — Felicity De Zulueta Copy Share Image
“(Talking about the movement to deny the prevalence and effects of adult sexual exploitation of children) So what does this movement consist… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“A guy never has a right to force a woman to have sex with him under any circumstances. She should be able… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
What you accomplish in life is limited only by your imagination and the fear of reprisal. Life is too fleeting and unrewarding… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“It was after a Frontline television documentary screened in the US in 1995 that the Freyds' public profile as aggrieved parents provoked… — Judith Jones Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
To live with the terrible truths about ourselves is the only way of not living them out. A need denied has infinitely… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy. — Tab Hunter Copy Share Image
Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Freedom means something when it has escaped something! Those people who escaped things their inner cages, cages set by others around them,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.” — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“Repression and denial set up elaborate games to pretend that negative thoughts and feelings are not occurring.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Irrationality may be more prevalent in the party of climate denial, but it isn't limited to Republicans. — Max Boot Copy Share Image
In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for… — John Viney Copy Share Image
“you cannot replace negative beliefs with positive ones you can't believe- positive ones that are too ambitious. you must find and choose… — Frederick Dodson Copy Share Image
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… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself. — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
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… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
![“The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of authority and wealth; it stands for self-denial and self-abnegation, for penance and regret, and is absolutely inert in the face of every [in]dignity, every outrage imposed upon…” quote by Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/840/emma-goldman-774_abnegation_the-fathers-of-the-church-can-well-affor_1830394.jpg)
