Quotes About Defence Mechanism

#1. Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny was a bit of a defence mechanism for me, so I ended up being a bit of a joker.

Pippa Evans

#2. every psychic defence mechanism known to the modern psychologist makes its appearance somewhere in Shakespeare.

Theodore Dalrymple

#3. When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

#4. Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

Brooke Shields

#5. I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#6. With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever.

Les Dawson

#7. This arrogance thing ... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.

James Corden

#8. War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.

Giles Duley

#9. At some point, when you read about this factual information that comes out in The New Zealand Herald and it's barely mentioned in The New York Times, then I think you've got to question where this is being manipulated, and where the filters are.

Eddie Vedder

#10. I'm staying focused and clear about what I want in life, and I'm going to get it, man.

Bobby Brown

#11. There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

David Hume

#12. Everyone deserves to feel good about themselves, and if you don't then start because everyone is beautiful.

Niall Horan

#13. Shailene Woodley is reason enough to see 'The Fault in Our Stars.'

Leonard Maltin

#14. DENIAL
Defense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realities is disavowed; refers to keeping out of conscious awareness any aspects of external reality that, if acknowledged, would produce anxiety.

Benjamin James Sadock

#15. To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.

Olga Kurylenko

#16. Be careful what you say ... you might end up in my next book!

Michele Lynn Seigfried

#17. Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

Victor Hugo

#18. In cities you have more image of God per square inch than anywhere else on Earth.

Timothy Keller