Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

C. S. Lewis

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

C. S. Lewis

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is yet in its true form.

C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

C. S. Lewis

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

C. S. Lewis

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

Russell Potts

Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine: Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens.

Kevin Hall

That was a deception of the voters, ... Voters were promised widening of 99 and improved interchanges on 99, 41 and 180. And what they got, primarily, was 168.

Lord Byron

I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.

Blaise Pascal

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

Blaise Pascal

We like to be deceived.

Bible Bible

The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

Ben Macintyre

The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

George Allen

I think they will step down if they're indicted. I do think that's appropriate if they're in the midst of an indictment.

Ian Paisley

I was telling the truth, I said I was very, very worried. At that time I was in the midst of trying to get a way whereby this would not happen. And it has happened. My words have been proved to be right.

Gail Tsukiyama

When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.

Agatha Christie

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

Adam Braun

We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.

Ji-Hae Park

In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.

Jose Rivera

in the midst of a heated political battle.

Stan Conte

I don't know how serious it is. We're still in the midst of it. We're doing some testing and will know more tomorrow afternoon.

Rick Carlisle

It's been tough. We're still in the midst of the playoff picture and we'll have to win our way in. We aren't going to back our way in, that's pretty clear.