Denial Quotes - Page 10

The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.

Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.

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.

[Donald Trump] has a huge mandate and they're still in denial and do not even know it yet.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.

The pathway to your best life isn't the route of denial. It's owning every moment.

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.

I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.

You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.

Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I'll pretend there's nothing wrong if you pretend there's nothing wrong. It's called denial, and it's one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just ask all those people who were still drinking champagne while the Titanic went down.

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.

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.

People tend to believe accusations more than denials.

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.

By looking the other way on climate change we facilitate a collective denial, and we do it for each other.

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion.

It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.

And weed's not a drug - that's denial

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.