We live in a world of denial and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
Doubt indulged and cherished is in danger of becoming denial but if honest and bent on thorough investigation it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
Denial exists because human infants though equipped with trust-o-meters are built to trust blindly and absolutely any older person who wanders past.
I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.
If you meet a woman in a burqa she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
I cannot consistently with self respect do other than I have namely to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial but in victory.
Good breeding is the result of good sense some good nature and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance self-denial hard work sacrifice dedication and respect for authority.
I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it.
Hope is the denial of reality.
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope by a limit imposed from without but falsely identified as lying within.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance chaos to order confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast a house into a home a stranger into a friend.
She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
God's delays are not God's denials.
One picture is worth 1 000 denials.
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
The schools would fail through their silence the Church through its forgiveness and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
The worst education which teaches self-denial is better than the best which teaches everything else and not that.
Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet they are about denial and discipline.
Lots of people there seemed to be in denial in absolute denial of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A. if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day you might not die.
It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster of danger and denial.
My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma become educated about their condition and seek help.
The art of motherhood involves much silent unobtrusive self-denial an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.