The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity.… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
Somehow, I'm in denial about being desirable. But every time my wife tells me to shave or cut my hair or clean… — Dulquer Salmaan Copy Share Image
I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
What I mean by "An Unspoken Hunger." It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by material things. It's a hunger that cannot… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope. — Michael Chabon 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Life is worthy of the name only when it reflects Reality in action. No university will teach you how to live so… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Advertising doesn't cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick… — Jean Kilbourne Copy Share Image
As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“For all this talk about us being a nation at war with child abuse, and for all the media hype about witch-hunts… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
A man who gives way to his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, catches the arrow in… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
“But the biggest problem with being fed lies about how great we are is that people won't be prepared for how evil… — Aron Ra Copy Share Image
No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Ever had the feeling, you attempt and fight hard to take someone off your mind and off your life but each time… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Always be true to your feelings because the more you deny what you feel, the stronger it becomes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.” — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
“Denial and affirmation are games which people play. There are people who deny that they are capable of denying, and who would… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Here I am in the state of New Mexico. George Bush is still in the state of denial. New Mexico has five… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
“It looks like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between I guess. It's closing time.” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with… — Marion Ross Copy Share Image
Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
There's no denial that one's gender orientation is certainly a core characteristic of any person, but it's not the only one. — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
To say 'I quit' brings a lot of criticism, but to get disqualified and say the ref was unfair and harsh, in… — Paulie Malignaggi Copy Share Image
There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
