Quotes About Disavowal

throw up his hands and say, 'Who, me? I had nothing to do with it.'

I have anyway washed my hands of cricket in India.

He was so drunk that he would have stubbornly denied that he was.

Uh, yeah - how about a warm hell no to that request? Does that work for you? Because it works for me.

We didn't do Brexit. We didn't get money for it. We didn't do work for it. We didn't sign a contract.

he'd deny it like hell if he ever heard me say it to anyone.

I was thankful to him, this man who freed me. At the same time I was annoyed be cause the man who freed me doesn't have the right to speak for me. I had no intention to disavow my old principles. But to disavow Servan Schreiber made for problems.

Despite his explicit and repeated disavowal of anti-Semitism, LaHaye has made odd comments about Jews, saying to Slate.com journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, "Some of the greatest evil in the history of the world was concocted in the Jewish mind.

Philosophy has never been anything but a disavowal of the reality principle.

DENIAL Defense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realities is disavowed; refers to keeping out of conscious awareness any aspects of external reality that, if acknowledged, would produce anxiety.

Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.

I know that disavowal is an unusal form of betrayal. From the outside it is impossible to tell if you are disowning someone or simply exercising discretion, being considerate, avoiding embarrassments and sources of irritation. But you, who are doing the disowning, you know what you're doing. And disavowal pulls the underpinnings away from a relationship just as surely as other more flamboyant types of betrayal.

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

There is nothing so conformable to reason as to disavow reason

We deny and have always denied having the slightest link with al-Qaeda.

The movie was very different from the book in that there was nothing from the book in the movie. Despite everything — all the pain I felt, the betrayal — I couldn't help but recognize a truth while sitting in that screening room. In the book everything about me had happened. The book was something I simply couldn't disavow. The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.

Does not happen!

Well, first, I didn't kill Dr. King.

Tom is a filthy little pustule. If you quote me, I'll deny it!

To be at peace with a troubled world: this is not a reasonable aim. It can be achieved only through a disavowal of what surrounds you. To be at peace with yourself within a troubled world: that, by contrast, is an honourable aspiration.

I have no desire to ever be involved in the image-board world again.

There is no 'Bat Out of Hell III.' That should have never happened. To me, that record is nonexistent. It doesn't exist.

To hell with everything I myself have ever written.

Okay, the State Department has been on the horn to their counterparts in Moscow. They are disavowing all knowledge of any of this.