Denial Quotes - Page 3

• I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

  David Geffen

  Believe, People, I Believe

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• Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Self, Littles, Sake

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.170, Oxford University Press

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• To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Opportunity, Machines

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• The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

  Angelina Grimke

  White, Silence, Despair

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.116, Penguin

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• My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.

  Teri Hatcher

  Thinking, Parent, Guilt

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• I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Thinking, Morality

  "Oral history interview with Donald Judd" by Bruce Hooton, www.aaa.si.edu. February 3, 1965.

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• The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Independence, Firsts

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.114, Library of Alexandria

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• The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.

  Tim Wise

  Racism, Form

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• It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

  Caleb Cushing

  Order, Rejection, Mind

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• There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

  Gail Sheehy

  Men, Prostitution, Ability

  Gail Sheehy (1973). “Hustling: Prostitution in Our Wide Open Society”, New York : Delacorte Press

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• To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Lying, Soul

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.100, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Stars, Believe, Creative

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• Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Self, Indulgence, Propensity

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics

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• All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Ignorance, Men, Patterns

  "Two Concepts of Liberty". Book by Isaiah Berlin, 1958.

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• The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Powerful, Law, Affection

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• I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

  David Bowie

  Korean, Overweight, Superhuman

  "The beauty world pays tribute to David Bowie" by Sian Ranscombe, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 11, 2016.

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• We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Ballet, Body

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• There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

  Walter Scott

  Character, Self, Excellence

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• Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Humor, Meat Eating

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• The creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs from the inability to accept the standardized cultural denials of the real nature of ex­perience. And the price of this kind of almost "extra human" crea­tivity is to live on the brink of madness, as men have long known.

  Ernest Becker

  Spring, Real, Creativity

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• They that do much themselves deny,
  Receive more blessings from the sky.

  Thomas Creech

  Blessing, Sky, Deny

  Horace, Thomas Creech (1715). “The Odes: Satires, and Epistles of Horace. Done Into English by Mr. Creech”, p.95

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• Denis Law could dance on eggshells.

  Bill Shankly

  Law, Eggshells

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• Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

  Vince Lombardi

  Humility, Sacrifice, Greatness

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• By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

  Jackie Mason

  Love, Faith, Humility

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• The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.

  Matthew Henry

  Christian, School, Self

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 535, 1895.

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