Denial Quotes - Page 28

• But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus of scientific experiments demonstrates, that is the beginning of the end of an informed democracy.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Democracy, Moments, Politician

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• Such self-denial 'may appear demanding,' but it will allow you, so to speak, to be and to breathe within the heart of the church.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Self, Church

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• After denial comes anger and finally, acceptance.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Acceptance

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Fall, Sunshine, Dark

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• We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. I am a specialist, God help me, in events in inner space and time, in experiences called thoughts, images, reveries, dreams, visions, hallucinations, dreams of memories, memories of dreams, memories of visions, dreams of hallucinations, refractions of refractions of refractions of that original Alpha and Omega of experience and reality, that Reality on whose repression, denial, splitting, projection, falsification, and general desecration and profanation our civilisation as much as anything is based.

  R. D. Laing

  Dream, Memories, Reality

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.

  Dean Koontz

  Emotional, Perfection, Forever

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.194, Bantam

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

  Evan Esar

  Believe, Rumor, Denied

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• In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement - the number restriction (two and only two) - is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Gay, Individual Choice, Two

  "Pandora and Polygamy". jewishworldreview.com. March 17, 2006.

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• The shadow of a cornstalk on the ground is lovely, but it is no denial of its loveliness to see as one looks on it that it is telling the time of day, the position of the earth and the sun, the size of our planet and its shape, and perhaps even the length of its life and ours among the stars.

  Arthur Miller

  Stars, Lovely, Shadow

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.156, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Strong, Desire

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• In the denial of that disorder there is order.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Order, Disorder

  "This Light in Oneself". Jiddu Krishnamurti's 4th public talk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, jkrishnamurti.org. May 19, 1968.

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• Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.

  Criss Jami

  Mistake, Pride, Turns

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.80, Criss Jami

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• Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempted to swerve from principle, sturdy as an oak in its maintenance; when solicited by the enticement of sinners, firm as a rock in our denial.

  William Morley Punshon

  Real, Rocks, Self

  William Morley Punshon (1882). “Lectures”

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• Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay the foundations of the Christianity which is to be hereafter, deep and broad.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Lying, Self, Class

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.350

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• I ask myself a lot how other women can be against the ideology that has to do with women empowering other women. Going along with the access of power and the status quo and forging a special position and the thought process that goes: I am not like those women. When it comes to things like assault, for example, perhaps it makes them feel safer. It's the denial: I'm okay. This won't happen to me. Acknowledging that the world is a profoundly unsafe for women is a scary thought.

  Jessica Valenti

  Empowering, Scary, Special

  Source: therumpus.net

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• His constant fight is with the Nafs (self-interest), the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this enemy man gains mastery over himself; this wins for him mastery over the whole universe, because the wall standing between the self and the Almighty has been broken down. Gentleness, mildness, respect, humility, modesty, self-denial, conscientiousness, tolerance and forgiveness are considered by the Sufi as the attributes which produce harmony within one's own soul as well as within that of another.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Crush, Wall, Humility

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• That certain snobbery of certainly the Parisian - combined with a complete denial of your historical legacy, is just awful. That's a funny thing about France. Saul Bellow wrote somewhere that he saw right through the French. He lived there. He wrote The Adventures of Augie March in Paris, and there's no one better than him to say what's unbearable about the French.

  Martin Amis

  Adventure, Historical, Legacy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The key to success is to not take rejection personally, to know that having faith counts the most when we feel scared the most, that a delay is not a denial and that persistence above all else will prove to be a powerful ally. Oh - and most importantly - do what you LOVE.

  Mastin Kipp

  Powerful, Persistence, Rejection

  "Do What Scares You & See The Miracle That Awaits!" by Mastin Kipp, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think Donald Trump should be delegitimized for many reasons. And his response to this hacking is also cause for delegitimization. But to say we should move on, when the bedrock of American democracy, the sanctity of our elections, has been messed with, just raises suspicions. His denial of it happening or its seriousness shows that there is something really amiss from his end of it.

  David Corn

  Moving, Thinking, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Donald Trump gets things done. That's all there is, getting things done, accomplishing objectives. And you watch. The reaction to Trump is, "We can't do it that way. This is not the way we do it. That's not the way it's always been done." It's almost cliched, but that is what I expect is gonna happen, and the Democrats, I think, are gonna end up falling even flatter on their face than they have to date because they still are living in a state denial.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Fall, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• People are in denial all the time, hiding things. If I tell you a racist or dirty joke and you laugh, you're telling me something about yourself, which you don't want to reveal. Accessing that hidden side is what good acting is all about. And there are only a handful of people in the entire United States who interest me as actors, who surprise me. Even people who write about it, don't know anything about good performance. At least when you work at General Motors, you know something about cars.

  Martin Landau

  Dirty, Writing, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I fear that the impact of university censorship and university denial of due process will be to mis-educate a generation of students away from core values of civil liberties and constitutional safeguards. Students who have been led to believe by university administrators and faculty that censorship and denial of due process are acceptable norms will be more susceptible to accepting those norms in their post-university lives. That would be a tragedy for America.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Believe, Tragedy, Liberty

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Bob Torricelli, Democrat member of the Senate, was basically about to be thrown out of office on corruption charges, and he went to the floor of the Senate to deny everything. And we juxtaposed his denials with an attorney from someone in an action against Torricelli who was listing all of the gifts and all the bribes that Torricelli had been given and offered in exchange for policy considerations on the Senate floor. So he's on the Senate floor denying it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Office, Bob, Action

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In actor's career, I had a fair amount of denial, which I think is possibly in the genes, where I just couldn't go to, "Maybe this won't work out." I just couldn't do it. My mind just refused to go there. I don't mean there weren't low periods. There were plenty. But I remember arriving in New York and I was maybe 32, and I didn't have an agent. I came from Chicago, where I had gone to school and worked and got my sea legs, so to speak, and I remember walking out of the subway, walking the streets, standing in front of the theater and saying, "I will work in this theater."

  Ann Dowd

  School, Mean, Thinking

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• A man who gives way to his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, catches the arrow in his hands, and then plunges it into his own heart. A man who is resisting his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, and although the arrow hits him, it does not seriously wound him because he is wearing a breastplate. But the man who is uprooting his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, but who strikes the arrow and shatters it or turns it back into his enemies heart.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Passion, Heart, Men

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