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
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
If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility… — Terry Eagleton 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
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
There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually… — Joyce Meyer 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
I don't like deceptive, sneaky people. Especially when I'm transparent with you! Things you find out after the fact! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral. — David Novak Copy Share Image
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
The Senate was holding hearings on deceptive sweepstakes practices. These companies target the elderly, making them think they're going to get a… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The deceptive, glossy media images of faces, bodies and social lifestyles, make us hate ourselves so we will buy a solution to… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing… — Armand Hammer Copy Share Image
One, which I mention several times elsewhere, is the need for patience if big profits are to be made from investment. Put… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by ‘the enemy’, and from which one’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We've discovered that the earth isn't flat; that we won't fall off its edges, and our experience as a species has changed… — Seth Copy Share Image
Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Engaging in deceitfulness is a slap in God’s face and has dire consequences. When we make a choice not to trust Him… — Deborah Smith Pegues Copy Share Image
As a John Kerry supporter, I wanted to send him a check. But then it occurred to me that most of that… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
