Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and… — Oliver Goldsmith 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement,… — James Randi 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
As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive. — Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio 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
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
Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip… — Robert H. Schuller 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
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
You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“THE ORGANIC FOODS MYTH A few decades ago, a woman tried to sue a butter company that had printed the word 'LITE'… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
