Quotes About Deception

FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth.

DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

hangimiz, kaç?n?lmaz oldu?u bilinen ?eyler kar??s?nda bile, kendini biraz daha aldatmaktan, bu kaç?n?lmazdan kaç?labilece?i, belki de bu korkular?n ba?a hiç gelmeyece?i umuduna -bütün bo?lu?unu bilerek- kap?lmak çocuklu?unu göstermekten utanç duydu?

A falsehood can run around the world while the truth is still putting its shoes on.

You can put wings on a pig, but that doesn't make it an eagle.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

He hated words. Words glossed every real thing with brittle artifice and deceit. Words were always lies, always intended to deceive even when they held the truth. . . .

The thing is, that most of the people in Congress want us to think that every problem is so unsolvable. They just gloss over them and make us think that sometime in the 'near' distant future they will be resolved. So the people just think to themselves, 'Who knows better than this guy, I guess?

The enemy uses lies to make                problems appear bigger                  than the solutions we carry.

Many people criticize those who long to experience more in God, but I don't trust the ones who don't. We are not going to be kept free from deception by abandoning experience. In fact, the ones who do not hunger more for God are already deceived.

If we are not careful, the steady stream of bad news will cloud our awareness of what God is saying and doing. Deception sets in that positions us to live and act defensively instead of continuing to respond to God's leading.

Revelation enlarges the arena that our faith can function in. Deception shrinks our area of faith.

Many fear signs and wonders because of the possibility of deception. So, in order to prevent any opportunity of being deceived, they replace displays of power with religious traditions, Christian activities, or even Bible study. They often become satisfied with knowledge. But, when this happens, who is deceived?

So many of us live in a "virtual reality;" it feels real and looks real, but it isn't real.

Most of the time now we live under a kind of spell, a lulling enchantment sung by the sirens of our consumer society, telling us what will make us happy. That enchantment is a half-truth at best—

infidelity is as common as sunrise.

A.M. The devil is

it sounded very good and very false at the same time, so that you had the feeling that even if was true, he was touching only on the very highest points and maybe embellishing those a little.

I soon find out this Grosswalk has been feeding her a line, telling her that his wife is an incurable invalid not long for this world

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

The deception of others is almost always rooted in the deception of ourselves.

Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken...a useless thing. Then make an offer.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.