Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Crane

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.

Greek proverb

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, He has no experience with it

Jean Fontaine

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver

Alan Arkin

I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.

Walter Kirn

I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

Jules Renard

Haughty, silent faces should not deceive us: these are the timid ones

Gloria Allred

Gwen was not there to deceive anyone. She had the right to live honestly.

Bible Bible

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Barton Smith

The professional, the high-skilled person is going to find it easiest to be able to find work in Houston.

Ned Vizzini

I always start a book thinking that it can be something other than first-person present, and I always come back to first-person present. It's just the easiest way.

John Gillespie

We're going to get it. They are going to take the easiest route.

Ben Smith

She has not had the easiest time staying on the straight and narrow. When you have a lot of talent, you might take things for granted.

Lamorne Morris

If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.

Kumail Nanjiani

I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is 'Wheel Of Fortune' because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.

Jenny Mack

Making sure tires are properly inflated is one of the easiest and most important maintenance procedures for drivers. Not only does it promote safety but also will save money at the gas pump.

Will Rogers

Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold

Mary Moreland

Getting the people out and relocated may be the easiest way, (but) the victims are not ready to leave.

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.