It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
“Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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 a kind of holy association with God; and, by making you his partner, interests you in all his happiness. — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens. — Russ Potts 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
I said I'm over you. I said I'm done with this. I said I've found new love else where. Well, guess what?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forgiveness: You cannot afford to withhold forgiveness. Nothing will destroy your life more surely, for there is a great hidden grief in… — Glenda Green Copy Share Image
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
only a matter of time before it broke through our fragile web of denial, forcing us to confront the truth and acknowledge… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The most difficult part after a breakup is acting like you've moved on already, but deep inside, your heart and soul all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it,… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
“Actually, nothing hurts like hearing the word slut, unless it is hearing the word rape dropped about carelessly. Again, a word I… — Christine Stockton Copy Share Image
The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“When I deny the seriousness of my abuse I agree with my abuser and those who wouldn't acknowledge it. When I am… — Patty Hite Copy Share Image
The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter… — Jiddu Krishnamurti 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
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
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
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
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
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
“Repression and denial set up elaborate games to pretend that negative thoughts and feelings are not occurring.” — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
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
“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
“The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don't feel safe to let people in it… — Shannon L. Alder 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
What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself. — Lierre Keith 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
