268 quotes found
“What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part is which and how much there is of each.”
“Ab figured that the chance of his recognising it would be about the same as a burglar recognising a dollar watch that happened to get caught for a minute on his vest button five years ago”
“Deception starts from the pulpit”
“A man who lacks understanding is susceptible to deception”
“Set yourself free from the deception of miracle focused gospel”
“Legal action is but warfare disguised.”
“The Holy Spirit will teach you, how to distinguish between right and wrong doctrines”
“In football, side netting can sometimes look like a real goal and it can make spectators jubilate for a moment, and then ponder! So is life!”
“Say the very simplest and most obvious things, say them as often as possible, and put into the saying all the screaming passion which one human voice can carry -- that was Adolf Hitler's technique....”
“One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.”
“Where is the best place to hide a penny? It is in a jar of pennies.”
“But if, in despotic statecraft, the supreme and essential mystery be to hoodwink the subjects, and to mask the fear, which keeps them down, with the specious garb of religion, so that men may fight...”
“Not all light is good. There is negative light, that can cast bad shadows.”
“There might be a deceptive tendency to believe that a life born into a world of plenty should be better, more really a life than one which consists in a struggle against scarcity.”
“See you now your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth; and thus do we of wisdom and of reach, with windlasses and with assays of bias, by indirections find directions out.”
“He looked down at the mask hanging around his neck. So simple a lie, and he could walk freely throughout the world.But would he then be trapped within the web of his own deception? What freedom cou...”
“Your letter reminds me that any love that necessitates deception is not love. It doesn't matter if that supposed love is institutional or personal.”
“If we run into any legionnaires we'll say we're out hiking and show them our forged imperial identity papers.""What is hiking?" Alain asked. "Walking for fun," Mari explained. "I mean, you're walki...”
“The facts are near to deception!”
“My lifeless body - a boat with sunken anchors, without leader on board, without harbor, without country, only my moist sails afloat in that tremendous ocean of my tears ,,,,”
