You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I'm worried about greenwashing. I think we should come down on it very, very hard, whether it's with criminal intent or actively… — John Elkington Copy Share Image
If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines. — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes… — Clare of Assisi Copy Share Image
“...I don't think it's any more deceptive than wearing four-inch come-fuck-me pumps when one has no intention of ever fucking anybody.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which,… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“The judge took one look at it and threw it out. He said the honey trap was “deceptive conduct of the grossest… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Appearances can be deceptive. The fact that we cannot see what God is doing does not mean that He is doing nothing.… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him. We stand on a… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives. — Jean Stapleton Copy Share Image
Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This is evangelicalism today: sensual, carnal, unconverted people that have just enough deceptive religion to drive them straight into Hell! Are you… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we… — Nathan Deal Copy Share Image
I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
While a forgery illegally exploits the elitist taste for rarity, a kitsch object insists on its anti elitist availability. The deceptive character… — Matei Calinescu Copy Share Image
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly. As one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“I'd rather stick with reality. Dreams are deceptive.” — Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare. — James Forrestal Copy Share Image
“Appearances can be deceptive. Just because someone has a generous chest and a romantic nature doesn't mean they're EASY.” — Hester Browne Copy Share Image