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
Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“But common sense is deceptive precisely because it is based on common experience.” — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written… — Pierre Corneille 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
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
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
'What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum. — Cathleen Schine 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
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
Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives. — Jean Stapleton Copy Share Image
I try to follow certain rules. Nothing in Élysée Palace should become habitual, because routine lends one a deceptive feeling of security.… — Emmanuel Macron 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
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
“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
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
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Vodka is a very deceptive drink, because you drink it and you think, "What is this? This is pointless! It's - you… — Dylan Moran 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
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
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
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
It is unlikely that many people will take to heart the conclusion that coming into existence is always a harm. It is… — David Benatar 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
Thus far, both political parties have been remarkably clever and effective in concealing this new reality. In fact, the two parties have… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
I have observed several hundred salespeople who were taught to use deceptive practices like 'bait and switch' and encouraged to play negotiation… — Ron Willingham Copy Share Image
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