Denial Quotes · Page 13

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

— Sharon Salzberg

Fighting your feelings is the most difficult battle ever.

— Anonymous

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

— Rush Limbaugh

“Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I act like your absence doesn't bother me at all, but it's killing me inside.

— Anonymous

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

— Louisa May Alcott

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

— Winston Churchill

“The thing about denial is that it doesn't feel like denial when it's going on.”

— Georgina Kleege

“Can we please drop the whole ‘school starts tomorrow’ talk? I’d like to live in denial for a little while longer.”

— Aileen Erin

Talking with an atheist is like trying to reason with someone who denies the existence of the sun.

— Ray Comfort

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding…

— Christopher Hitchens

Saying 'I don't care' doesn't stop you from caring and holding it all in doesn't make you stronger.

— Anonymous

The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

— Barack Obama

Most people who seek advice, are simply looking for affirmation. And they will seek as much 'advice' as it takes to get…

— T Jay Taylor

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that…

— James Burgh

If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are…

— Anwar Ibrahim

One main problem with raising awareness of LGBT abuse is the denial. The term "domestic violence" is perceived as something akin to…

— Kim Kardashian

Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light TO the darkness. Ignoring darkness does not dispel it;…

— Marianne Williamson

Mr. Robinson and Mr. Kovite have...written a captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac -\-\ a novel…

— Michiko Kakutani

“The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated…

— Robin Hobb

If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-violent means. A man may…

— Mahatma Gandhi

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected…

— Samuel Smiles

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in…

— Daniel Dennett

Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and…

— John Ruskin

The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has…

— Joanna Russ

Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and…

— Sam Harris

“As the incidence and fear of rape on college campuses have increased, the term rape has been generalized to mean 'misuse; diminish…

— Connie C. Eble

Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of…

— Kevin DeYoung

“Remember I spoke earlier of how there are three layers of abuse to this NPD? The first layer is our mother’s abuse.…

— Danu Morrigan

“YOU CAN RUN, BUT CAN NOT HIDE "The statement, 'after giving it much thought', hardly becomes credible when one spends less that…

— R. Alan Woods

“You told me, if something is not used it is meaningless, and took my temperature, which I had thought to save for…

— Rosmarie Waldrop

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

— Ruth St. Denis

Id like to say I dont care, but the sad thing is I do.

— Anonymous

We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.

— Lane Evans

“A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

— Lewis Mumford

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“You only reveal your game plan when you know you're winning, or losing.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

Washington is the place where nobody believes a rumor until it has been officially denied.

— Evan Esar