We are gods with anuses.
Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.
Paul: Nostalgia is denial - denial of the painful present... the name for this denial is golden age thinking - the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one one's living in - it's a flaw in the romantic imagination of those...
Better a friendly denial than unwilling compliance.
Behavioral science is not for sissies.
The thing about denial is that it doesn't feel like denial when it's going on.
Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial.
Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.
ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.
I'm of the opinion that many Christians are in deep denial about the reality of there being 'real' Evil in this world. Evil that cannot be reasoned with; is reprobate, incorrigible, determined, un-appeasable, violent, murderous, and unrelenting. I fi...
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.
Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.
Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.
Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.
Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.
Ben Bradlee: All non-denial denials. They doubt our ancestry, but they don't say the story isn't accurate.
