They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool ... You've even been insulated… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my… — Ronaldinho Copy Share Image
I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
It is fine to imitate a being you respect, but you cannot become that very being. Imitation is something one does to… — Masashi Kishimoto Copy Share Image
Deceiving world, that with alluring toysHast made my life the subject of thy scorn,And scornest now to lend thy fading joys,T'outlength my… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When all the people in the world love one another, then the strong will not overpower the weak, the many will not… — Motsi Mabuse Copy Share Image
[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We're not… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Never compromise a dream. Do what you must. The fears, beasts, and mountains before you are part of the plan. Stepping stones… — Mike Dooley Copy Share Image