Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lester Cole

I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Luc de Clapiers

Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.

Sager is kind of deceptive. He's got good feet, picks his holes well and is a good hitter. Morse is a kid who hits you hard.

Sam reminds me of Glen Johnson. His record is deceptive but this is his opportunity.

Joe Girardi

People don't see the ball, they don't have good swings on him. I can't really tell you exactly why, but there's some deception to him. Some of it might be his height, some of it might be the downhill plane all the time, but there's deception to him and I really like it.

It really comes down to greed and deception and finger-pointing,

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, / Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: / All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

Teju Cole

It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

Seth

Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.

Richard Serra

If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in which the work resides. Apart from that condition, any experience of the work is a deception.

Sydney J. Harris

Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.

We can now see a pattern of coordination and deceit.

Benjamin Franklin

Women & Wine, Game & Deceit, Make the Wealth small and the Wants great.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

P. C. Cast

I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones." - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24)

Thomas Sowell

Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.

Veronica Roth

Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.

Samuel Johnson

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

Herman Melville

What like a bullet can undeceive!

Franz Grillparzer

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

Jean de La Fontaine

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Chris Hedges

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

Ezra Taft Benson

One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.

Francis Bacon

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

Erin Hunter

Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by Yellowfang, page 3)

George Eliot

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

Carlos Castaneda

it's better to get something worthwhile done using deception than to fail to get something worthwhile done using truth.

It shows that while he can be charming, there's deception there.

Frank Herbert

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

J. M. Coetzee

Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.