“right wing’s most common techniques—including the deceptive use of statistics.” — Al Franken Copy Share Image
“Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Destiny is not obvious, it's deceptive, but you can't stop if from happening.” — Terence Simmons Copy Share Image
Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance. — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy. — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading. — John O'Toole Copy Share Image
Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions. — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of… — Laurel Lea Copy Share Image
Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Sometimes what is in front of you and what you are seeing isn’t really so. It can, in fact, be quite deceptive.” — Ella Frank Copy Share Image
Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Our prayer service today and my words are not meant to demonize anyone, but are intended to call attention to the diabolical… — Thomas J. Paprocki Copy Share Image
By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
A good woman must constantly resist alluring and deceptive messages from many sources telling her that she is entitled to more time… — Julie B. Beck Copy Share Image
Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Barry Levinson is such a deceptive director, because he seems really lackadaisical. I'd never worked with him before, and I almost got… — Alessandro Nivola Copy Share Image
The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of… — Charles Hummel Copy Share Image
To make a live record - something that has a lot of life in it - is difficult. After slaving away for… — John Vanderslice Copy Share Image
This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
It's just a matter of who you are and how you talk to people. Your subjects will trust you only if you're… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably… — Marquis de Custine Copy Share Image
Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish… — Max Born Copy Share Image
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strengtheach… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“But common sense is deceptive precisely because it is based on common experience.” — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false. — Kabir Copy Share Image
Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them,… — Plato Copy Share Image
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
