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Quotes About Deceptive

One, which I mention several times elsewhere, is the need for patience if big profits are to be made from investment. Put another way, it is often easier to tell what will happen to the price of a stock than how much time will elapse before it happens. The other is the inherently deceptive nature of the stock market. Doing what everybody else is doing at the moment, and therefore what you have an almost irresistible urge to do, is often the wrong thing to do at all.
~ Philip A. Fisher
The judge took one look at it and threw it out. He said the honey trap was "deceptive conduct of the grossest kind"; the idea of "a psychological profile being admissible as proof of identity in any circumstances [was] redolent with considerable danger." And
~ Jon Ronson
Watching Clayton Kershaw in the very first game of the 2014 season, I realized that he's not overpowering; he's deceptive. It's the sum of his parts that makes the Los Angeles Dodgers ace baseball's most successful pitcher.
~ Gabe Kapler
I was a shy kid but also very mischievous. Because I looked super innocent, no one could really call me out on my pranks.
~ K. L. Rahul
Most importantly, it became clear that the name "free trade agreement" was itself a matter of deceptive advertising: it was really a managed trade agreement, managed especially for special corporate interests, particularly in the United States.
~ Joseph E. Stiglitz
their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.
~ Douglas Adams
Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
~ Agatha Christie
Mundi honor est a sliper thinge and an elvich. Worldly fame is a treacherous and elvish thing.
~ Alaric Hall
Peoples think I's a harmless idiot," he said. "They's only half right.
~ Alastair Reynolds
This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.
~ James Forrestal
The key idea underlying the impending Singularity is that the pace of change of our human-created technology is accelerating and its powers are expanding at an exponential pace. Exponential growth is deceptive. It starts out almost imperceptibly and then explodes with unexpected fury
~ Ray Kurzweil
I look much more civilized than I actually am.
~ Georgina Chapman
Fame is a Bleet, man.
~ Brad Pitt
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Deep down he is shallow.
~ Political saying
When I capture my thoughts and compare them to the truth of God's Word, I often find they are false, deceptive, or destructive.
~ Lori Hatcher
Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!
~ Lu Xun
A promise is just an empty shell filled with words, and words are weightless.
~ Lik Hock Yap Ivan
Play dead often and long enough and people begin to think you are.
~ Janet Tashjian
The Lord God is subtle, but malicious he is not.
~ Albert Einstein
The scariest people are usually the sweetest.
~ Eli Roth
Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
~ William Shakespeare
A nice frame doesn't make a nice picture.
~ Winston Graham
If he is this good at acting crazy, it's because he is.
~ Jean Baudrillard