The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it. — Simon Travaglia Copy Share Image
If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity. — Jean-Francois Cope Copy Share Image
“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“All religions, nearly all philosophies, and even a part of science testify to the unwearying, heroic effort of mankind desperately denying its… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
You can try to change it, hide it, deny it, lie about it... but in the end the truth is still the… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved. — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
“most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not… — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
In order to attract us, the Lord grants us many graces that we believe can easily obtain Heaven for us. We do… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The moonlight rained down on the beach as if to shine a spotlight on my solitude, and I wanted to cry out… — Rachael Wade Copy Share Image
I was watching TV one day and a lady who had two miscarriages was crying. I said to the TV, 'Pull yourself… — Amanda Redman Copy Share Image
In the case of 'Chernobyl,' we're telling a story of a government that runs on lies the way cars run on fuel,… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
The establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business - so history has to… — Edward S. Herman Copy Share Image
“She hated Jourdan as she had never hated anyone in her life before. She tried to move away, but he wouldn't let… — Penny Jordan Copy Share Image
“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong.… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
“The story of Sybil is true, not fictional or fraudulent. One early commentator actually suggested that Sybil and Dr. Cornelia Wilbur, her… — Philip M. Coons Copy Share Image
We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
What has actually to be said about the Cause of everything is this. Since it is the Cause of all beings, we… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image