All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.
Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.
The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.
We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise in denial - denial of God and her nonviolence towards us, denial of love of neighbor, denial of laws essential to our being.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous (global warming) is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.
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.
The great American denial riff is that you can do whatever you like and you always triumph at the end. The world is saying no, you can do what you like, but there are consequences. And maturity is to be able to turn to the consequences and accept them.
To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self).
You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.
I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.
My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears.
To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.
But grief is a walk alone. Others can be there, and listen. But you will walk alone down your own path, at your own pace, with your sheared-off pain, your raw wounds, you denial, anger, and bitter loss. You'll come to your own peace, hopefully, but it will be on your own, in your own time.
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.
employers sense in me a denial of their values. . . they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.
The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.
We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.
One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.