Intellectualization Defense Quotes

#1. Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!

Iain M. Banks

#2. Given the circumstances, I think the rabbi did a very good job. What did you think?"
"It's my policy not to review funerals.

A.M. Homes

#3. I wasn't aware that hope require a reason, any more than love. In case you have forgotten - I have no talent for hoping. I don't hope. I know. I believe. I expect.

Tessa Dare

#4. I doubt if, after all, I'll ever write anything again worth putting in print.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. Rabbi Heshel said: "A man should be like a vessel that willingly receives what its owner pours into it, whether it be wine or vinegar.

Martin Buber

#6. Money is permission to live.

H L Humes

#7. I don't ask other artists for too much advice.

Blake Shelton

#8. When I played a club in Salt Lake City, I complained to the crowd about the low turnout. It's always good to berate the people who paid to see you because you're upset about the people who didn't show up. It's called misplaced anger, and without it, I wouldn't have an act.

Andy Kindler

#9. How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!

William Shakespeare

#10. The more things you do, the more you can do.

Lucille Ball

#11. I like gross generalizations ... I also like disgusting specifics!

Josh Stern

#12. Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

Tony Blair

#13. More than any other games, baseball gives its players space - both physical and emotional - in which to define themselves.

John Eskow