#denial

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

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

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself. ↗

— Keith Miller

#i #myself #primary #see #symptom

With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on - who cares? That youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway. ↗

— Julianne Moore

#age #ages #anything #anyway #cares

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#comes #highest #indispensable #kind #religious

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#accept #denial #i #just #reality

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#denial #either #necessarily #silence #though

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial. ↗