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Quotes About FALSE

Easy hope was usually false hope.
~ Dean Koontz
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
~ Irwin Edman
There is now a false idealism of turning Government into God, by a vague notion that it gives everything to everybody; to the denial of the liberty given by God, which is called life. . . .
~ Dale Ahlquist
Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don't understand that the culture really isn't offering us all of these options – there still are very strong pressures to conform. We have to step outside the culture to be able to make choices that will really give us what we want. But we lack the psychic mechanisms to do this, to really choose.
~ Unknown
The dialogue and the gestures are tinny and false, like some kind of bright paper wrapped around the meaning of the moment.
~ Damon Galgut
Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet.
~ Dan Bennett
Look at how far astray the man's adoration had led him—so many misguided betrayals, each of them a burnt offering at the altar of her memory. But now you could sense the dawning realization that he had built a flawed temple to a false god.
~ Unknown
The idea that just because you are a woman you should be supporting Hillary Clinton I think is false. There is a broad base of political views.
~ Cathy McMorris Rodgers
The BBC is consistently manipulated by Brexiteers into providing them with false parity in arguments where their views add nothing, represent nobody and are demonstrably and factually wrong.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.
~ Nate Mendel
I could write a thesis on the physiology of vision. But I had no way to look through the fabric of confabulation spun by a man with severe lung disease who was prescribed 'home oxygen', but gave a false address out of embarrassment because he had no 'home.'
~ Siddhartha Mukherjee
First you scare them, then you offer them your false hope. It's disgusting. But it works. And now the politicians, familiar with the power of fear, have bought your potion wholesale.
~ Louise Penny
Witches are moon-birds, Witches are the women of the false, beautiful moon.
~ Unknown
True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.
~ Unknown
Never trust her at any time when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.
~ Lucretius
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
~ Unknown
It was an attraction born of close quarters, and false familiarity. It meant absolutely nothing. Yet she drove home one-handed, the fingertips of her free hand gently touching her mouth, whispering, "Beloved.
~ Jodi Picoult
Our lives are limited by our beliefs. In my active addiction, I believed that my life and happiness depended on external forces. I made decisions according to that belief. My false belief led me to make wrong choices. I ultimately created the kind of world I believed in.
~ John Bradshaw
B*tch you're like a cartoon, fake as f*ck.
~ Unknown
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
~ H.P. Lovecraft
It doesn't cause nausea, vomiting, shortness of breath, like they said before." "What does it cause?" "Heart palpitations and a sense of déjà vu." "Déjà vu?" "It affects the false part of the human memory or whatever. That's not all. They're not calling it the black billowing cloud anymore." "What are they calling it?" He looked at me carefully. "The airborne toxic event.
~ Don DeLillo
Why was it that the words with which we confronted death always sounded so inadequate, so blatantly false?
~ Donna Leon
We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.
~ J.C. Ryle
As the sun gazed upon makes everything else look dark and dim , so does the cross darken the false splendour of this world.
~ J.C. Ryle