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Denial is a useful defense mechanism until it's not. — Rosalind Kaplan

Denial is a defense mechanism, all about self-preservation. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance. — Zack Love

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique. — Monica Raymund

People use irony as a defense mechanism. — David Byrne

He said cynicism's self-protection, a defense mechanism used by cowards who give up on love because they're afraid love's given up on them. — Linda Yellin

I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first. — Jodi Picoult

Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves. — Mark Batterson

'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind of dude? — Ben Mendelsohn

It's fun to discover things. I wouldn't want everything laid out, simply and too obviously. — Bob Odenkirk

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. — Winston S. Churchill

I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain. — Cassandra Clare

The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth. — Kilroy J. Oldster

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues. — Youssou N'Dour

I became a control freak as a defense mechanism. The more control I had in my life, the less chance of being surprised, of getting hurt. — J.A. Konrath

Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me. — Pandora Boxx

They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened
Exodus (1960) screenplay — Dalton Trumbo

Fashion has always been my defense mechanism. — Rihanna

I suspected eccentricity was often if not always a response to pain, a defense mechanism against anguish and torment and sorrow. — Dean Koontz

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance. — Lou Holtz

I would make people who bullied me laugh, so that's my defense mechanism. — Sherri Shepherd

I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one. — Richard Wright

Consciously join with and become part of the power that is in everything around you. — Frederick Lenz

I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy. — Tim Hawkins

I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment." — William S. Burroughs

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive. — Garry Shandling

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied. — Criss Jami

Why should I just sit around hoping it happens when maybe I can do something to make it happen? — Laura Wiess

Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it. — Chinua Achebe

I especially like it when a guy starts out rude, explains that it's a defense mechanism, and then turns even ruder once I get to know him. — Lena Dunham

To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look. — Mandy Hale

I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat. — Anita Loos

When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence — J.F. Kennedy

Those who stand in the way of virtue shall fail! — Liu Bei

The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial — Frank M. Ochberg

Snark is a fabulous defense mechanism. — Betsy Schow

I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world. — Peter Jennings

I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth. — Stephen Hawking

I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester. — Peter DeLuise

But their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons. — Ayn Rand

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. — Randall Robinson

the sand was like sugar under his feet. They — Anne Rice