Denial Quotes - Page 2

• I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

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• Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

  Denis Diderot

  Power, Long, Literature

  "L'Encyclopédie". Book by Denis Diderot, 1751-1766.

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• Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fear, Self, Shining

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

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Reality, Dancing

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• Hope is the denial of reality.

  Margaret Weis

  Hope, Reality, Denial Of Reality

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2009). “Dragons of the Dwarven Depths: Lost Chronicles, Volume One”, p.22, Wizards of the Coast

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• In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Light, Giving, Lovely

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

  Frank Herbert

  Anger, Men, Self

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.366, Penguin

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• Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Silence, Quiet

  "Paulus", L, 17,

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• Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Hope, Fear, Lying

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.36, W. W. Norton & Company

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• God's delays are not God's denials.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, God, Delay

  Robert H. Schuller (1986). “Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking”, Jove

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• All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

  Jacques Lipchitz

  Art, Sculpture, Answers

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• The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

  John Sterling

  Education, Self, Worst

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.184

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• You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

  Atom Egoyan

  Holocaust, Armenia, Forgotten

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• The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

  Denis Diderot

  Funny, Running, Humorous

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• A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

  William Graham Sumner

  Fathers Day, Encouragement, Believe

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.38, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

  Christopher Lasch

  Smile, Buttons, Realistic

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• Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

  Theodore Parker

  Religious, Strong, Business

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• Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

  Susie Orbach

  Self, Way, Saying No

  Susie Orbach (1997). “Fat is a Feminist Issue: The Anti-diet Guide for Women”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.

  Marion Ross

  Loss, Often Is, Hearing

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• Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Democracy, Important, Minorities

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• It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Ballet, Doe

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• She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

  Boy George

  Insecurity, Balls, Bigs

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• Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Today, Social, States

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• Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Doubt, May, Becoming

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• The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Forgiveness, Home, School

  Simon Wiesenthal (1976). “The sunflower”, Schocken

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