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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
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
Exodus (1960) screenplay — Dalton Trumbo
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
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
Why should I just sit around hoping it happens when maybe I can do something to make it happen?
— Laura Wiess
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
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
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