Country Quote by James Forrestal

The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

— Larry Hagman

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

— Lucinda Williams

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a…

— Anton Chekhov

“Experience, as we know, is deceptive: one judges the world through the prism of what has happened to oneself and considers this a just…

— Juan Bonilla

Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality…

— Howard Zinn

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few…

— Don Rickles

“Destiny is not obvious, it's deceptive, but you can't stop if from happening.”

— Terence Simmons

Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which…

— John Berger

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

— Blaise Pascal

“right wing’s most common techniques—including the deceptive use of statistics.”

— Al Franken