Alcoholic Denial Quotes & Sayings

Everything in the garden became suddenly vivid as if some general membrane had been peeled away. — Mark Haddon

It's not enough to withdraw from society and seek your own salvation, your own individuation. The individuator must return to society ("collectivity") to contribute his or her new insights, his or her new values, which must be at least equal to if not greater than the norm. — Gary Valentine Lachman

I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it. — Roger Federer

Network administrators all share an abiding and passionate desire for one thing: We want our users to shut up. — Michael W. Lucas

When I got home, I poured myself one last quick drink. I took a deep sip and let the warm liquor travel to destinations well known. Yes, I drink. But I'm not a drunk. That's not denial. I know I flirt with being an alcoholic. I also know that flirting with alcoholism is about as safe as flirting with a mobster's underage daughter. But so far, the flirting hasn't led to coupling. I'm smart enough to know that might not last. Chloe — Harlan Coben

Never underestimate the capacity for romance, no matter what the circumstances. — Jasper Fforde

Acting is happy agony. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I want to take everything I have in me, weave it, merge it with the beauty that is in the Library of Congress, all the resources, the guidance of the staff and departments, and launch it with the heart-shaped dreams of the people. — Juan Felipe Herrera

We're not citizens anymore. We're consumers. That's what we're called. It's just like being an alcoholic and being in denial that you're an alcoholic. We're in denial that each and every one of us is the problem. And until we face up to that, nothing's going to happen. — Yvon Chouinard

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I'm not one. I'd rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can't ignore. — Robert Rauschenberg

When entertainment works the best, you're creating an apparatus to convey emotions. — John Ridley

To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God. — Mahatma Gandhi

The survivor movements were also challenging the notion of a dysfunctional family as the cause and culture of abuse, rather than being one of the many places where abuse nested. This notion, which in the 1990s and early 1980s was the dominant understanding of professionals characterised the sex abuser as a pathetic person who had been denied sex and warmth by his wife, who in turn denied warmth to her daughters. Out of this dysfunctional triad grew the far-too-cosy incest dyad. Simply diagnosed, relying on the signs: alcoholic father, cold distant mother, provocative daughter. Simply resolved, because everyone would want to stop, to return to the functioning family where mum and dad had sex and daughter concentrated on her exams. Professionals really believed for a while that sex offenders would want to stop what they were doing. They thought if abuse were decriminalised, abusers would seek help. The survivors knew different. P5 — Beatrix Campbell

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do! — Roland Joffe

Oh, because you're an alcoholic." Only when I heard those words did it filter through my own denial. Only then did I gain understanding. — David W. Earle

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives. — Berthold Auerbach

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures. — Sydney Smith

What we think about, expands. — Mark Allen

Being a politician is a lot like being an alcoholic in denial. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

Celaena opened her arms wide, Goldryn burning bright in one hand. "Behold my power, Maeve. Behold what I grapple with in the deep dark, what prowls under my skin."
Celaena exhaled a breath and extinguished each and every flame in the city.
The power wasn't in might or skill. It was in the control - the power lay in controlling herself. — Sarah J. Maas

Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial. — David Stafford