George Carman Quotes

When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.

Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial.

Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.

Denial is a very powerful thing.

There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.

I'll close my eyes really, really tight and make you all go away.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

Though I had an idea of what was going on - I purposely didn't see it.

Society is much like the ostrich with its head in the sand. It will not look at facts and face the responsibility of its own stupidity.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

What state do you live in? Denial.

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

I don't want to live in a world where I just kind of play on my naïveté - well if I don't know it, then it doesn't exist.

If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.