Denial Quotes - Page 27

• I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.

  Gloria Allred

  War, Rights, Years

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• 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

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• It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.

  Julian Sanchez

  Religious, Order, Ideas

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• To survive you must surrender without giving in, that is to say, fully accept the reality in all its horror and never give up the will to survive. That allows you to quickly adapt to the situation and dedicate yourself to the present moment rather than wallow in denial.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Giving Up, Reality, Will To Survive

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• In order to attract us, the Lord grants us many graces that we believe can easily obtain Heaven for us. We do not know, however, that in order to grow, we need hard bread: the cross, humiliation, trials and denials.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Believe, Order, Heaven

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

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Longing, Intense, Yearning

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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• I think that nobody - certainly in this world - can say that they don't have the human denial element about them or fear or whatever it is as juxtaposed with faith and hope and freedom and love.

  Juan Pablo Di Pace

  Thinking, And Love, Elements

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed, the idea of self-denial and of all that makes for pain and sorrow is its test of human worth, its passport to the entry into heaven.

  Emma Goldman

  Christian, Pain, Self

  Emma Goldman (1913). “Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures”

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• The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of authority and wealth; it stands for self-denial and self-abnegation, for penance and regret, and is absolutely inert in the face of every [in]dignity, every outrage imposed upon mankind.

  Emma Goldman

  Regret, Father, Self

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

  Gustave Courbet

  Mean, Principles, Realism

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• Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

  Mark Twain

  Rivers, Egyptian

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• I'm in total celebrity denial in general, but there's awareness that probably if somebody has met you, they might go and tell somebody. I just would rather have the word on the street stay at a neutral, not like, "She shows up in a ball gown," but "She seemed nice." That's fine.

  Julie Bowen

  Nice, Gowns, Balls

  "Julie Bowen Talks PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE, Getting Involved with the Sequel, Working inside the Recording Booth, and Her Most Bizarre Fan Encounter". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 18, 2014.

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• No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.

  Samuel Smiles

  Mean, Rights, Self

  Samuel Smiles (1866). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance”, p.2

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• It's so much easier to get high than how scary it must be to see who you actually are and take responsibility for it. Denial is an easy place to live in.

  Rosario Dawson

  Responsibility, Scary, Getting High

  "In her own words: Rosario Dawson talks about playing Vanessa Hudgens’ drug-addled mother in 'Gimme Shelter'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. January 2014.

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• I don't necessarily view death as something negative. Death gives meaning to life. Living in fear of death is living in denial. Actually, it's not really living at all, because there is no life without death. It's two sides of the one. You can't pick up one side and say, I'm just going to use the 'heads' side. No. It doesn't work like that. You have to pick up both sides because nothing is promised to anyone in this world besides death.

  Curtis Jackson

  Views, Two Sides, Giving

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• There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

  J. I. Packer

  Self, Speak, Repentance

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• My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Attitude, Kids, Risk

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• Jesus existed, and those vocal persons who deny it do so not because they have considered the evidence with the dispassionate eye of the historian, but because they have some other agenda that this denial serves.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Jesus, Eye, Agendas

  Bart D. Ehrman (2012). “Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke: you have made an enormous commitment to something. You have poured effort and money in. And the more you put in, the more that the whole consistency principle makes you think, "Now it has to work. If I put in just a little more, then it will work."

  Charlie Munger

  Commitment, Thinking, People

  "Business: What Lawyers Should Know". Charlie Munger's lecture to the students at the Stanford Law School in Stanford, California, March 13, 1998.

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• Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is - robbing humanity

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Russia, Names, Humanity

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• Chosen soul, how will you bring this about? What steps will you take to reach the high level to which God is calling you? The means of holiness and salvation are known to everybody, since they are found in the Gospel; the masters of the spiritual life have explained them; the Saints have practiced them...These means are: sincere humility, unceasing prayer, complete self-denial, abandonment to Divine Providence, and obedience to the will of God.

  Louis de Montfort

  Spiritual, Prayer, Mean

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• You know, a meme is now circulating that's called the Ostrich Brigade. And it's used to describe all those people who are burying their heads in the sand. I call it the three D strategy. It's denial, deflection, and a demonization of those of us who want to speak honestly about these issues of extremism.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Ostriches, Issues, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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

  Margaret D. Klein

  Climate, Way, Collectives

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People would believe propagate, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of denial.

  Bassem Youssef

  Believe, Order, People

  "Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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• The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

  Bassem Youssef

  Way, Facts, States

  "Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, February 3, 2016.

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