Nothing is of its nature evil, and nothing is of its nature good. Evil is only excess, good is simply balance. All… — John Parsons Copy Share Image
“Maintain a belief system that admits that all things are possible for those responsible to have them done. It's nothing to deny;… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer… — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
Some women are convinced that they are the same size they were 20 years ago. They also wear clothes that are too… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
“He hadn't "abused" alcohol, but had spent almost four years sitting in a chair drinking jug wine around the clock and looking,… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
You don't need the painful memories, because either you've resolved them. Denying always makes them want to come back. Denial is a… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
“She was so upset about a blog that maybe a total of six people read yet had no compassion for her granddaughters… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
There is a tremendous amount of confusion and denial that exists about mass incarceration today, and that is the biggest barrier to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
He was in a room of the Gesshuuji, which he had thought it would be impossible to visit. The approach of death… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“The witch-hunt narrative is a really popular story that goes like this: Lots of people were falsely convicted of child sexual abuse… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
“And the kids?" "Quincy, nothing. All she wants to do is look for Saturn's rings and bring home every creature from the… — Stephen M. Irwin Copy Share Image
Bob Torricelli, Democrat member of the Senate, was basically about to be thrown out of office on corruption charges, and he went… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Some children are threatened with loss of privileges such as money, cell phones, cars or even eviction from home if they do… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Denial is commonly found among persons with dissociative disorders. My favorite quotation from such a client is, "We are not multiple, we… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Part of what makes a situation traumatic is not talking about it. Talking reduces trauma symptoms. When we don't talk about trauma,… — Tian Dayton Copy Share Image
So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't spend a huge amount of time fixated on climate denial because I don't think that their objections, though sometimes couched… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Don’t forget that when we stop allowing truth in, either because it’s painful or unflattering or inconvenient, we will wind up self-deceived.… — Mike Ashcraft Copy Share Image
We make assertions and denials of what is next to [the Divine Nature], but never of It, for It is both beyond… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
Follow Christ in the denial of all the wills of self, and then all is put away that separates you from God;… — William Law Copy Share Image
I think vampires are different from human beings, but they're sentenced to eternity on this planet. They have the same confusion about… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial. The denial forces members to keep believing the myths and vital lies in… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
The creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs from the inability to accept… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Jesus existed, and those vocal persons who deny it do so not because they have considered the evidence with the dispassionate eye… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
It's only in America where there seems to be this sort of systematic denial of the reality of global warming at the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I will usually be in denial about that, too, because I really don't like that. Sometimes I will recognize it and sometimes… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The womb is one of the defining features of the female animal. The defining feature of abortion, meanwhile, is a denial or… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
The evidence of our acceptance in the Beloved rises in proportion to our love, to our repentance, to our humility, to our… — Gardiner Spring Copy Share Image
So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everybody was telling [the Democrats], the media, everybody telling them they're gonna win in a landslide, [Donald] Trump's a buffoon, look at… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“I am not sure if we are numbed to the reality of rape, but here's the sad irony. While the word rape… — Christine Stockton Copy Share Image