Deceptive Quotes

106 Deceptive quotes by 97 unique authors

The deceptive, glossy media images of faces, bodies and social lifestyles, make us hate ourselves so we will buy a solution to love ourselves once… — Bryant H. McGill
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 too proud to… — Joyce Meyer
One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that… — Charles Stanley
Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets. — Lucinda Williams
Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is… — John Burroughs
Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. — Friedrich Nietzsche
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage.… — Anton Chekhov
Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just… — Janet Fitch
The word itself has another color. Itâ€™s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now… — William H. Gass
Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are… — Gloria Naylor
...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was.… — Anton Chekhov
AS SOMBRAS DA ALMA. THE SHADOWS OF THE SOUL. The stories others tell about you and the stories you tell about yourself: which come closer… — Pascal Mercier
I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous… — Joanne Harris
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned… — Homer
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.… — Mahatma Gandhi
But when we set out to understand somebodyâ€™s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are… — Pascal Mercier
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that… — Gilles Deleuze
Few things are more deceptive than memories. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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