Melissa Manchester Quotes

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

No, I'm not.

All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.

Our fear leads us to say no all the time.

Dietrich would never do that

The real danger is a politics that buries its head in the sand.

There is nothing going on. I took nothing you wanted. You can't have it back.

You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.

Never underestimate the power of denial.

No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.

The reality is that we do not wash our own laundry - it just gets dirtier.

Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.

No is the foundation that we can build our yes on.

I do not want to answer provocative question.

Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.

None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not hear, that will not see.

We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.

If you catch somebody doing something wrong, he will just cringe away and curl up. He will not listen anymore. Instead, he will think of how he can counterattack.

It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

Denial is an ugly thing.

I am the Spirit that denies.

No, we did not do this, and we are not with you.

I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!