Quotes About FALSE

Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain.

By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

Place your allegiance and respect in what is everlasting and real, not in the transitory and false.

The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true.

All personal god, yours or mine, are false. Unto existence nothing but an infinite oneness walks.

There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

You build a city in the desert, water it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what happens. The desert reclaims it, turns it arid, leaves it barren. Human tumbleweeds drift across its streets, predators hide in the rocks

Used to be - in the old days - the media image roughly corresponded to reality. But now it's all reversed. The media image is the reality, and by comparison day-to-day life seems to lack excitement. So now day-to-day life is false, and the media image is true. Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.

The question we must ask today is "Do we get Jesus?" or have we substituted false portraits of him in our theology?

When you borrow a lot of money to create a false prosperity, you import the future into the present. It isn't the actual future so much as some grotesque silicone version of it. Leverage buys you a glimpse of a prosperity you haven't really earned.

The mask of kindly patronage had dropped away to show the hatred and the fear beneath.

I'm a born music lover and want to sing for all music composers as well but due to some false impression many makers feel that I prefer to make my own music and sing, though I'm equally comfortable in both.

The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one, we appealed to the sentiments and interests of the different groupings in the region and had them with us. In the second one, we did it on our own, on the basis of false premises, with extremely brutality and lack of political skill.

Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made.

I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing.

Birth is a dream, spontaneous and innate. Death, on the other hand, is a slow, false, divine calamity. It is like love.

You claim that any promise which gives you the power, and guarantees you the love of God must be the false promise of the devil.

Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall..

No reason to get excited The thief, he kindly spoke There are many here among us Who feel that life is but a joke But you and I, we've been through that And this is not our fate So let us not talk falsely now The hour is getting late

He gave his habitual impression, that he was prepared to have everything, anyone, unless they hastened to keep up. That impression in Romulan's case might be false.

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

People are attracted to entertainment, for sure, or jokes, excitement and romantically heightened stories that might be false, but are still attractive fantasies.