Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.

Carlos Castaneda

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

Agnes Martin

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

Alan Sugar

Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.

Alan Keyes

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

Alan Keyes

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

Charlotte Bronte

Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.

Charlotte Bronte

I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

Charlotte Bronte

I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.

Chris Christie

We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.

Benjamin Franklin

None are deceived but they that confide.

Aristophanes

Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.

Athanasius

For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.

Bible Bible

Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

Hitopadesa Hitopadesa

The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.

Aeschylus

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

Noam Chomsky

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

Bible Bible

Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

Bram Stoker

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.

Ned Yost

Looks are deceiving at times. Sometimes, they're not.

Bible Bible

Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons

Dustin Lanz

He was our go-to guy. He was the main focus and with someone so dominant, we had to get it to him. He went by guys who were slower, and he was pretty much a power guy. He's just super-athletic - it's deceiving how quick he is.

Lois Perrin

From the outside, it looks fine. It's strikingly gorgeous. But that's what is deceiving about it.

Aesop

Appearances are deceiving.

Agatha Christie

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

Jim Nantz

That's going to be a deceiving final -- a 25-point swing over the final 11 minutes. The Great Danes were great, indeed, for about 30 minutes.