Quotes and Sayings about Denial
"I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred."
- Roger Nash Baldwin
(Related: Act, Denial, Practice, Respect, Self, Self respect)
"The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute."
- Honore De Balzac
(Related: Art, Detail, Devotion, Motherhood, Self)
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."
- Melody Beattie
(Related: Home, Life, Gratitude, Friend, Acceptance, Chaos, Clarity, Confusion, Denial, Order)
"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
(Related: Men, Thought, Control, Values, Denial, Will)
"Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd."
- Annie Besant
(Related: Experience, Denial, Proof)
"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
(Related: Truth, Danger, Denial, Doubt, Investigation, May)
"The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity."
- Barbara Boxer
(Related: Women, Government, Development, Denial, Rights, Prosperity, Wrong)
"Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech."
- Charles Bradlaugh
(Related: Abuse, Denial, Free speech)
"The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race."
- Charles Bradlaugh
(Related: Life, People, Hope, Abuse, Day, Denial, Race)
"I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects."
- David Brainerd
(Related: God, Necessity, Self)
"The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: People, Failure, Denial, Right, Vote, Voting)
"When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done."
- Lindsey Buckingham
(Related: Time, Work, Being, Denial, Exercise, Order, Psychology)
"We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions."
- Eric Cantor
(Related: People, Choice, Decisions, Denial)
"Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others."
- Lord Chesterfield
(Related: Nature, Breeding, Result, Self, Sense)
"Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Denial, Silence)
"Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: God, Denial, Possession, Right, Sin)
"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
(Related: Denial, Mind, Order, Rejection, Right)
"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
(Related: Denial, Genocide, Talk)
"I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with."
- Anne Ford
(Related: Denial, Disability, Years)
"I believe we're all in denial about the people we love."
- David Geffen
(Related: Love, People, Denial)
"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
(Related: Denial, Insecurity)
"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
(Related: Life, Opportunity, Hope, Denial, Lying)
"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life."
- Germaine Greer
(Related: Life, Denial, Nothing, Security)
"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
(Related: Act, Denial, Despair, Duty, May, Right, Silence)
"I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home."
- Cathy Guisewite
(Related: Home, Humor, Mom, Ability, Denial, Sense)
"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
(Related: Blame, Denial, Guilt, Parents, Talk)
"How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Denial, Man, Self)
"Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you."
- Bill Hicks
(Related: Denial, Drugs)
"I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy."
- Tab Hunter
(Related: Mother, Denial)
"I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality."
- Donald Judd
(Related: Art, Morality, Denial, Now)
"Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier."
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
(Related: Self, Will)
"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."
- Christopher Lasch
(Related: Conservatism, Denial, Ideology, Smile, Symbol)
"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
(Related: Art, Death, Life, Action, Artist, Denial, Sculpture)
"Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority."
- Vince Lombardi
(Related: Life, Work, Sacrifice, Perseverance, Authority, Dedication, Football, Hard work, Respect, Self)
"The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself."
- Keith Miller
(Related: Denial)
"To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."
- Lewis Mumford
(Related: Art, Opportunity, Denial, Machine)
"Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial."
- Susie Orbach
(Related: Saying, Self)
"I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government."
- Carl Paladino
(Related: Government, People, Denial, Media, Party, Today, Want)
"I have a very highly developed sense of denial."
- Gwyneth Paltrow
(Related: Denial, Sense)
"Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock."
- Theodore Parker
(Related: Character, Religious, Self)
"Delay is the deadliest form of denial."
- C. Northcote Parkinson
(Related: Delay, Denial)
"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."
- Ronald Reagan
(Related: Worth)
"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
(Related: Denial, Hearing, Help, Loss)
"We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming."
- Diane Sawyer
(Related: Accident, Country, State)
"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
(Related: History, Ability, Democracy, Denial, Nation, Right, Vote)
"God's delays are not God's denials."
- Robert H. Schuller
(Related: God)
"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
(Related: Americans, Democrats, Denial, Nation, Security, State, Today, Workers)
"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
(Related: Ability, Denial, Man, Woman)
"Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage."
- Charles Simmons
(Related: Love, Men, Greatness, End, First, Integrity, Opposition, Practice, Praise, Self, Universe, Will)
"If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness."
- Theodore C. Sorensen
(Related: Greatness, Country, Eyes, Self)
"The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that."
- John Sterling
(Related: Education, Self)
"I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened."
- Jock Sturges
(Related: Denial, Public)
"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
(Related: Father, Son, Self, Skill)
"The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it."
- Simon Travaglia
(Related: Denial, Potential)
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
- Mark Twain
(Related: Denial)
"You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory."
- J. Donald Walters
(Related: Peace, Victory, Denial, Problems, Trying, Will)
"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Denial, Reality)
"Hope is the denial of reality."
- Margaret Weis
(Related: Hope, Denial, Reality)
"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
(Related: Home, Forgiveness, Church, Denial, Parents, Schools, Silence)