Deceptive Quotes
106 Deceptive quotes by 97 unique authors
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Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing…
— Karen White
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Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly. As one long prepared, and…
— Constantine Peter Cavafy
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It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves…
— George Eliot
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It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a…
— Georges Bataille
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You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear,…
— Anais Nin
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It is unlikely that many people will take to heart the conclusion that coming into existence is always a harm. It is even less likely…
— David Benatar
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Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.
— Myles Munroe
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This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends reporting about themselves,…
— David Levithan
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The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false…
— James Randi
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Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.
— Blaise Pascal
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Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions sensed by the…
— Milarepa
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Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is…
— Jodhi May
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Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals…
— David D. Burns
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Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask…
— Robert H. Schuller
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Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.
— David Novak
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We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought our economy to its knees in 2008.
— Elizabeth Warren
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Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.
— John O'Toole
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The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power…
— John Burroughs
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Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised
— Bible
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If you have a young leader in your home or in your neighborhood. Tell them the story of Troy Davis, and tell them to never…
— Merle Rutledge Jr
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