Quotes About Denial

America's bipartisan strategy for years has been to deny jihadists with sanctuaries anywhere in the world from where they can plan, prepare, and train for attacks against the West.

I think most people will tell you that. They can go along and, while they're denying that they are addicted, say it's stress this, it's this, it's that. But I - it's - I think - I really believe there is a gene. Some people become addicted and others don't.

We strongly condemn all forms of anti-Semitism as well as any form of downplaying or denial of the Holocaust.

We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions.

The American middle class's faith in personal comfort as an end in itself is, in essence, a denial of life. And it has been imposed upon American writers and playwrights strongly enough to cut them off from their deeper sources.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

I have killed no one and I have ordered no one to be killed.

I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.

That's not my picture...

By shooting your cook you were refusing him permission to enter your house.

Cheating happens in the blink of an eye and then the cheater says, "I never blinked!"

high confidence causes low competence, which in turn causes denial, until one faces the facts and confidence is lowered—then, progress may start.

Even if she had realized that she had a problem, she would not have cared. All she knew was that with each sip she took, the better she felt: her fear receded, her misery disappeared and her confidence grew.

Evil, above all evil on the scale practiced by Nazi Germany, can never be satisfactorily remembered. The very enormity of the crime renders all memorialisation incomplete. Its inherent implausibility—the sheer difficulty of conceiving of it in calm retrospect—opens the door to diminution and even denial. Impossible to remember as it truly was, it is inherently vulnerable to being remembered as it wasn't.

Cada vez que intentaba pensar en ello, su pensamiento quedaba obturado. No podía seguir adelante. Y ello la obligaba a mentir cuando la preguntaban cosas que no entendía. Y más tarde, a creer, o a creer que creía, que sus mentiras eran verdad. Y a pedir que cesaran todas las investigaciones, porque prefería "no saber" a saber lo que temía.

A legtöbb feln?tt azt mondja, hogy boldog gyerekkora volt, és talán még el is hiszik, de nekem aztán mondhatják. Szerintem csak sikerült elfelejteniük.

the things we don't deal with always come back. There's no escape

BARBARA: You do understand that it hurts, to go from sharing a bed with you for twenty-three years to sleeping by myself. BILL: I'm here, now. BARBARA: Men always say shit like that, as if the past and the future don't exist. BILL: Can we not make this a gender discussion? BARBARA: Do men really believe that here and now is enough? It's just horseshit, to avoid talking about the things they're afraid to say.

CHARLIE: So you can't even see Ivy's point? MATTIE FAE: No. CHARLIE: That Little Charles and Beverly share some kind of . . . complication. MATTIE FAE: Honey, you have to be smart to be complicated. CHARLIE: That's our boy. Are you saying our boy isn't smart? MATTIE FAE: Yes, that's what I'm saying.

It was the perfect set. Theseus gave a great war cry and brought his sword arcing up toward Sheba's throat - but the monster of the labyrinth lives inside us all. She is the dark, devouring hunger that is never sated, the creeping shadow that ever plays the fiend to our seraphim, the secret rage hidden in our hearts; deny her, and we become her slaves; fight her, and we make her invincible. By now, you must know that no monster can ever be killed, not really - […]

If you refused to look, it was easy to pretend it wasn't happening.

I have never yet known a man admit that he was either rich or asleep.

Another characteristic of psychopaths is an ability to avoid taking responsibility for things that go wrong; instead, they blame others, circumstances, fate, and so forth.

Marxism is supposed to be a social science designed to see through hypocrisies and denial, but Marxism ended up as a kind of earplug, guaranteed to deafen its disciples.