#denial

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

#identity #meet #reply #she #smile

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#everything #happen #life #nothing #security

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#angry #denial #him #his #how

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial. ↗

— Lorraine Bracco

#denial #had #i #like #living

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#denial #distinguish #general #impossible #mind

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one. ↗

— Boy George

#aware #ball #big #denial #great

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#conservatism #contemporary #denial #ideology #ostensibly

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it? ↗

— Eric Liu

#ask #birth #citizenship #conferred #denial

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#dedication #football #hard #hard work #life

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. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#day #death #denial #die #enough