Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.
Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.
My personal feeling is that human beings have this incredible capacity for denial.
The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.
A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it.
Don't censor incoming data through denial.
What I mean by "An Unspoken Hunger. " It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by material things. It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by the constant denial.
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
Denial is an ugly thing.
People are in denial all the time, hiding things. If I tell you a racist or dirty joke and you laugh, you're telling me something about yourself, which you don't want to reveal. Accessing that hidden side is what good acting is all about. And there are only a handful of people in the entire United States who interest me as actors, who surprise me. Even people who write about it, don't know anything about good performance. At least when you work at General Motors, you know something about cars.
I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
And weed's not a drug - that's denial
Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.
Bob Torricelli, Democrat member of the Senate, was basically about to be thrown out of office on corruption charges, and he went to the floor of the Senate to deny everything. And we juxtaposed his denials with an attorney from someone in an action against Torricelli who was listing all of the gifts and all the bribes that Torricelli had been given and offered in exchange for policy considerations on the Senate floor. So he's on the Senate floor denying it.
Farts come from no one and nowhere; they are anonymous emanations that belong to the group as a whole, and even when every person in the room can point to the culprit, the only sane course of action is denial.
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.
Though [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical denial that Paul authored any of the epistles, Guignebert took both quite seriously.