Quotes About Denial

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

This is Hollywood. People don't admit mistakes.

Republicans believe an obstructionist, do-nothing Congress will deny Obama momentum and keep their base energized.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

It is mainly by resisting authority that the individual defines himself. This is why authorities--whether parental, priestly, political, or psychiatric--must be careful how and where they assert themselves; for while it is true that the more they assert themselves the more they govern, it is also true that the more they assert themselves the more opportunities they offer for being successfully denied.

Faced with parts of ourselves that we do not recognize, would like perhaps not to recognize, we deny the kinship, and often lean away from the new and into the old, accentuating the familiar qualities that complement the strange new ones.

A stick is not only wood but the negation of wood. It is the meeting in space of wood and no-wood. A stick is finite and unextended wood, a fact determined by its own denial.

isn't the initial loss that does for him, but the stupid plays he makes in an effort to deny that the loss has happened. The great economic psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky summarised the behaviour in their classic analysis of the psychology of risk:

We were handing out little key bumps of cocaine, turning our own supporters into addicts, and then telling ourselves there wasn't a problem. They just need another bump to stay level. And another. And another.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.' – Upton Sinclair, American writer

Everyone in this world acknowledges as truth only what is convenient for them. They have no other way of living.

To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

not only is religion divisive and oppressive, it is also a denial of all that is divine in people; it is a suffocation of the soul.

The underworld persists because society needs it, insists upon it, supports it (at the same time that it denies and persecutes it, of course).

Only one mirror has not been covered with chalky paint and that one the man ignores. He does not want to see himself stalking females or their liquid.

But the story stays the same: some of us would rather die than change. We love what will destroy us

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does

When your ability to determine what is real is taken away by a drug, it's terrifying. But it's far worse when it's denied to you by other people.

You are! You're staring at me and accusing me!" She thew down her tea. "But I didn't kill my only child, Kyle, bury him in the dirt floor of the basement and construct an elaborate fantasy world! No, I did not!

No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.

She pretended not to notice the look of longing in his eyes. It didn't mean anything.

Who says I'm drinking? (Morgan) I guess the bottle drank itself. (Jake)

No," Kelsey said as if it were the

Lauren: "Can I ask you a question?" Angie: "Generally that's a question one should say no to. Often hell no.