Quotes About Denial

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning.

It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.

Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.

What you resist, persists. What you look at disappears. That is, it ceases to have its illusory form. You see it for what it Is. And what Is can always be changed. It is only what Is Not that cannot be changed. Therefore, to change the Isness, move into it. Do not resist it. Do not deny it.

Acceptance of something places you in control of it. That which you deny you cannot control, for you have said it is not there. Therefore what you deny controls you.

I tell you, before the cock crows, you will deny Me three times. Every thought of your Self as smaller than you really are is a denial of Me. Every word about your Self that puts you down is a denial of Me. Every action flowing through your Self that plays out a role of "not-good-enough," or lack, or insufficiency of any kind, is a denial indeed. Not just in thought, not just in word, but in deed.

Denial is the mechanism here. And nowhere is denial more insidious than in self-denial.

Verbal Greeting, Refusal to Touch Hands, Public Denial of Formerly Agreed-upon Opinion, Refusal to Repeat a Joke and Mortification Event (a catch-all). I use the Humiliation

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

Objective truths of science are not founded in belief systems. They are not established by the authority of leaders or the power of persuasion. Nor are they learned from repetition or gleaned from magical thinking. To deny objective truths is to be scientifically illiterate, not to be ideologically principled.

Objective truths of science are not founded in belief systems. They are not established by the authority of leaders or the power of persuasion. Nor are they learned from repetition or gleaned from magical thinking. To deny objective truths is to be scientifically illiterate, not to be ideologically principled. After all that, you'd think only one definition for truth should exist in this world, but no.

To deny objective truths is to be scientifically illiterate, not to be ideologically principled.

willful ignorance.

I learned very quickly that even when I kept no secrets from you, you still didn't want to hear the truth.

Denial is an ugly thing.

I overlooked some obvious problems, made excuses for others.

he didn't think he had a problem. Because he didn't become mean or violent, he thought he didn't have a problem. Because it was usually only beer, it couldn't possibly be a problem. But it was a problem, because he'd gradually become the kind of man she couldn't have imagined marrying. She couldn't count the number of times that she'd cried about it.

I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm.

I didn't burn down anyone's house! I didn't. I wouldn't!" Maddie looked at Jacob. "You know I wouldn't. I didn't kill you when I had the chance!

His black eyes smoldered, a velvet seduction. I need a dream to rid myself of nightmares. She backed away from him, holding a palm outward to ward him off. "Just you keep your ideas to yourself," she warned. "You have that devil's look, the one that says no woman is safe." That is not true, Shea , he denied, the hard edge of his mouth softening into temptation. Only one woman. You.

I can't believe I started this early. She's barely two, Gregori said. I was your friend, you maniac, Mikhail told him. We got in so much trouble together, and you were always the instigator. Even at two. Don't believe him, Gregori said.

Not me , Colby denied firmly. No one is getting me up in front of the world vowing I'll obey Rafael. Rafael raised his eyebrow. There is the promise of obedience in this marriage ceremony? Paul, we have to talk.