Denial Quotes - Page 23

• If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework of an insane person’s actions. Your sound protests constitute denial. Your valid fears are deemed paranoia. Your survival instincts are labeled defense mechanisms. It’s a no-win situation. It’s a death penalty really.

  Dennis Lehane

  Fall, Winning, Insane Person

  8 Copy quote

• Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.

  Catherine Crook de Camp

  Money, Exercise, Self

  6 Copy quote

• The Daily Beast reports today that if Steve Bannon is denied a security clearance, the President could simply overrule that denial and order that security clearance.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Order, President, Today

  Source: www.msnbc.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Trying, Levels, Avoiding

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does no good to put a halo on the notion of tolerance as if everything could be equally true. To deem all beliefs equally true is sheer nonsense for the simple reason that to deny that statement would also, then, be true. But if the denial of the statement is also true, then all religions are not true.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Simple, Tolerance, Halos

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

  78 Copy quote

  Show source

• The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'

  Alfred Korzybski

  Identity, Negative, Fundamentals

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.10, Institute of GS

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

  Donald Hall

  Powerful, Done, Stimulus

  Donald Hall (2012). “Life Work”, p.68, Beacon Press

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

  William James

  Men, Rocks, Self

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.114, Harvard University Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It's when you shut down, go into denial, and try to start hiding things from yourself and others, that's when you lock in certain behaviors and attitudes that keep you stuck.

  Tracy McMillan

  Attitude, Opportunity, Long

  16 Copy quote

• The president has to project to the American people a sense of demanding idealism. Idealism which is not based in self-indulgence, but on self-denial and sacrifice, and on this such an America is going to be credible to the world.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Sacrifice, Self, America

  Source: www.nytimes.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Gender, Characteristics, Persons

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

  Hilary Mantel

  Self, Greedy, Paradox

  Source: newrepublic.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think many Dutch just don't know the history of Black Pete, that he is rooted in slavery, and how he was used to dehumanize a race of people. Once they realize this, many stop using this character, but those who continue are either in denial, insensitive or actually racists.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Character, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.theskanner.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Religious, Tolerance, Facts

  "Significance of Secularism: Atheism is a Way of Live". The Atheist, Vol. 28-29, (p. 43), 1996.

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that each of us is so much alike, and yet at the same time we are so different, and I have a feeling that if you encountered difficulty, and I with my age encountered the same difficulty, I would respond one way, and you would respond another. Neither would be right or wrong. It's just that each of us is courageous, and that's what I encourage, courage, and the courage to see, and the courage to say to oneself what one has seen. Don't be in denial.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Feelings, Age

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all do that.

  Maya Angelou

  Needs, Done, Helping

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I remember on page one of The New York Times the article about Fred Leuchter. The heading was "Can Capital Punishment Be Humane" and it was the story about an electric chair repairman and execution machine designer. And then buried in the back of the paper was the fact that Fred Leuchter had also been involved in holocaust denial.

  Errol Morris

  New York, Punishment, Holocaust

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a person distinct from everyone else. The notion of a static self is the primary obstruction to the realization of our unique potential as an individual being. By dissolving this fiction through a centered vision of the transiency, ambiguity, and contingency of experience, we are freed to create ourself anew.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Independent, Unique, Self

  7 Copy quote

• There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

  Cathy Rigby

  Beautiful, Sports, Gymnastics

  6 Copy quote

• Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Grief, Grace, Feelings

  24 Copy quote

• He was in a room of the Gesshuuji, which he had thought it would be impossible to visit. The approach of death had made the visit easy, had unloosed the weight that held him in the depths of being. It was even a comfort to think, from the light repose the struggle up the hill had brought him, that Kiyoaki, struggling against illness up that same road, had been given wings to soar with by the denial that awaited him.

  Yukio Mishima

  Struggle, Thinking, Wings

  4 Copy quote

• The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to be Fidel Castro's legacy.

  Andy Garcia

  Religious, Lgbt Community, Political

  "Cuban-American celebrities offer messages of hope following death of Fidel Castro". www.foxnews.com. November 27, 2016.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

  Donald Trump

  Rights, Squad, Suffering

  "Trump and Obama offer divergent responses to death of Fidel Castro" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get it.

  Collin Peterson

  Party, America, Trump

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't spend a huge amount of time fixated on climate denial because I don't think that their objections, though sometimes couched in science, are based in science. I think they're based in ideology. And I don't think there's anything you can do.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Climate, Sometimes

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source