Quotes About Denial

The worst-tempered people I`ve ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life.

I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, and she said "No."

A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said "no."

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said "No."

If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there.

I recall my Romani friend who drives from village to village to offer his services to potential clients and who claims, when asked about his origin, to be Irish or Italian. 'I make a living by denying who I am,' he says.

Like I said, I'm fine. I don't ever think of her.' And I didn't ever think of her, except from time to time.

He or she cannot clearly remember what happened when they were two, three, or four years of age. Worse, the reality of their developmental history has been clouded and denied by the effects of both the splitting and moral defenses. The result of this psychological conspiracy leaves one and only one recourse open for the victim: to unconsciously act out the same destructive pattern with the next generation of child-victims.

In my experience most people in your profession seem to think that if they do not admit the existence of a mistake, the mistake will not exist.

In his documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore quotes a well-known twentieth-century American journalist, Upton Sinclair: "It's difficult to get someone to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate....It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs....

We deny the severity of our loved one's problem, not because we are naive, but because we can't know.

To psychologically kill something, you must integrate it. To psychologically empower something, you need only avoid it, deny it, repress it, project it, and so on.

Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit

Quien no ha perdido a quien quiere mientras le dice todo está bien, no pasa nada, no sabe lo que es el amor.

No buts, Ben. No. 'N' and 'O' spells 'no'.

I didn't cry. And if you think I did, good luck proving it, asshole.

We can't even convince the public that global warming is dangerous. Why? Because carbon dioxide happens to be invisible.

Some would rather fall into the sleep of death than wake up to the truth of life