Quotes About Addiction Denial

#1. The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands: for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.

John Locke

#2. If you are old enough to feel angst about how a holiday "feels," you are very likely no longer in the target demographic.

Thomm Quackenbush

#3. The two-year note has become the Treasury market's gauge of expectations regarding when and how quickly the Fed will raise rates.

Anonymous

#4. Children of the new morning, criminal minds. Selfish and greedy and loveless and blind.

Tony Kushner

#5. In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements.

Elinor Ostrom

#6. When denial is in play, a person simply refuses to recognize the truth, no matter how apparent.

Taite Adams

#7. Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to be a surrogate audience member on the films you are working on.

Jay Cassidy

#8. We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

Richard M. Weaver

#9. If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.

Mark Nepo

#10. Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.

William H. Calvin

#11. I'm gonna walk down the aisle in style and profile.

Ric Flair

#12. To see both sides of a quarrel, is to judge without hate or alarm

Richard Thompson

#13. Always be mine, puppy please, puppy please.

Spike Lee

#14. Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it's just better form.

Geoffrey Wood

#15. Women's genetic celebrity power magnifies men's protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men's addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage thus we either don't see it, or when confronted, deny it.

Warren Farrell

#16. Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.

David Stafford

#17. The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.

Gabor Mate

#18. As in all addiction, we are in denial about the degree to which we are controlled by our god-substitutes.

Timothy Keller

#19. Service is a deceptively profound way to prove not only what you can do for the world, but what you can tell the world to expect from you and your ambitions.

Chelsea Clinton