Denial Quotes - Page 28

• Never underestimate the power of denial.

  Alan Ball

  Beauty, Underestimate, Never Underestimate

  Alan Ball, Sam Mendes (1999). “American Beauty: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

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• Carrying the cross does mean following in Jesus' footsteps. And in His footsteps are rejection, brokenheartedness, persecution and death. There are not two Christs - an easy going one for easy going Christians, and a suffering one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are we willing to follow His lead?

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

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• When it comes to success, it will come when it comes. A delay does not mean a denial.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Mean, Doe

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• The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

  James Carroll

  Progress, Comfort, Stories

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• Give yourself another chance to make your dream a reality. Don't allow a delay to become a denial. Raise the bar on yourself, increase your determination, and explode your drive. You will fail your way to success. Everything you experience can be used to grow through...not just to go through. Make your dream happen! You deserve!

  Les Brown

  Dream, Determination, Reality

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• Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme satisfaction in Christ alone.

  John Piper

  Self, Mind, Satisfaction

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• Follow Christ in the denial of all the wills of self, and then all is put away that separates you from God; the heaven born new creature will come to life in you, which alone knows and enjoys the things of God, and has his daily food of gladness in that manifold blessed, and blessed, which Christ preached on the mount.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Blessed

  William LAW (Author of “A Serious Call, ” etc.) (1806). “Selections from the Works of ... W. Law, making a guide to rest, in belief of the Gospel, and in obedience to the Divine Law”, p.581

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• If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Humility

  William Law, P. G. Stanwood (1978). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love”, p.52, Paulist Press

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• For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

  Pliny the Younger

  Men, Favors, May

  "Epistulae". Book by Pliny the Younger, III. 4,

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• Racism was just a tool to deal with frustration and pain and that people are in denial about the way we feel and desperately trying to control their environment the way their lives are. And ultimately their scapegoats aren't going to make them feel better, it's just going to increase hatred and the problem gets worse and worse.

  Matt Dillon

  Pain, Feel Better, Frustration

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go through art school they are exposed to the history of the avant-garde, and there's a general understanding that what you're doing as an artist is to a large extent, not just regurgitating that history, but engaging with it. There's this denial of that in the mainstream publishing world.

  Tommy McCarthy

  Art, School, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.

  David Byrne

  Feelings, Incredibles, Capacity

  "Byrne, Baby, Byrne". Guernica Interview, www.guernicamag.com. April 15, 2010.

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• I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Long, Deceit, Demand

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• We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial.

  Christopher Alexander

  Loss, Men, Intellectual

  Christopher Alexander (1964). “Notes on the Synthesis of Form”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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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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• Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect to patriarchy, then her only option becomes deviance. I chose deviance. I chose to be a loving dissident. To dance the dance of dissidence. This stance can be assumed from the inside or the outside. Whichever place we choose, the important thing is having the sustained will to be, act, and speak from the ground of our feminine souls.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Soul, Important, Deviance

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• For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any sexual interest in women, sometimes by a pattern of loving and leaving them.

  Judith Viorst

  Mother, Men, Leaving

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hero, Self, Deeds

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• There’s no way that you can live an adequate life without many mistakes.  In fact, one trick in life is to get so you can handle mistakes. Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke.

  Charlie Munger

  Mistake, People, Adequate

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• And that is what is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore conservatives: they have come to understand that as soon as they admit that climate change is real, they will lose the central ideological battle of our time—whether we need to plan and manage our societies to reflect our goals and values, or whether that task can be left to the magic of the market.

  Naomi Klein

  Real, Goal, Magic

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage.

  Abraham Verghese

  Country, Thinking, Men

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• All human kingship risks a denial of the sovereignty of God.

  Peter Hollingworth

  Risk, Kingship, Sovereignty

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• I love carbs, but denial is good training for the mind.

  Jason Momoa

  Training, Mind, Carbs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It wasn't government that gave us nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and denials for pre-existing conditions. It wasn't government that gave us the yearly and lifetime caps on insurance coverage that have sent so many people into bankruptcy when they've faced a serious illness or accident... It wasn't government that gave us a system in which the gap between what we spend and what we get is so enormous. It was the free market.

  Paul Waldman

  Government, Serious Illness, People

  "The health care reality conservatives ignore" by Paul Waldman, www.cnn.com. November 29, 2013.

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• Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government.

  Bill Shorten

  Attitude, Government, Egypt

  "Abbott Government still behaving like an opposition: Shorten". Interview with Louise Yaxley, www.abc.net.au. December 1, 2014.

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