Cheating Quotes - Page 5

• Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Struggle, Satisfaction, Life Is

  Letter to Frances Scott Fitzgerald, 5 Oct. 1940

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• Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.

  John Lee Hooker

  Names, Ems, Cheat

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• I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

  R. L. Stine

  Block, Writing, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Believe, New Beginnings

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• The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

  John le Carre

  Wise, Childhood, Parent

  "John le Carre: A man of great intelligence" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting

  Ambrose Bierce

  Peace, Fighting, Affair

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• Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.

  John Evelyn

  Garden, Quality, Towns

  E. S. de Beer (ed.) 'The Diary of John Evelyn' (1955) vol. 3, p. 96 (10 May 1654)

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• I believe the media pretty much dictates the way relationships are handled, even in the way we handle ourselves. Abuse, cheating, threesomes, it's inspired by music and television. Irresponsible artists and writers with a hidden agenda, just working against the moral fabric that God intended for us to have.

  Tony Gaskins

  Believe, Artist, Media

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• Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Design, Weakness, Treachery

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• A lot of people in the art world hate to use the word "Photoshop", like it's cheating or easy or something. I say bollocks to that - for me, it's my tool, my paintbrush if you like, and lets me create my own visual language.

  Idris Khan

  Art, Hate, People

  "'A lot of art people hate Photoshop... bollocks to that'". Interview with Natalie Hanman, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2007.

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• Cheating is a definite no-no. My man has to be all mine or never mind!

  Shraddha Kapoor

  Men, Mind, Definite

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• It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.

  Melissa Bank

  Husband, Sound, Ordinary

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• You are always cheating for the audience.

  William Friedkin

  Audience

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. December 4, 2008.

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• Next to hurting my family, cheating on me is the worst thing someone could do.

  Robert Buckley

  Hurt, Next, Cheated On

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tiger Woods is stupid; not for cheating, but for having one cell phone. What type of player you know has one cell phone?

  Donnell Rawlings

  Stupid, Player, Phones

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• I got to a point in my life when I'd done loads of things I regretted. I made all the wrong decisions. I was trying to fill my life with all these projects, hoping that one of them would succeed. I was like a cheating girlfriend. I was cheating on all the bands with other bands, and I was trying to manage everything.

  Duffy

  Girlfriend, Decision, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.

  Dan Ariely

  Real, Thinking, Small Acts

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• I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts and things like that. I just think it was something I already knew, something I had experienced in another lifetime.

  Willie Nelson

  Song, Writing, Heart

  "Willie Nelson: What I've Learned" by Robert Hubert, www.esquire.com. April 29, 2015.

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• An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Lying, Character, Men

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• ...all man's desired geometric progressions, if a high rate of growth is chosen, at last come to grief on a finite earth. And the social system for man on earth is fair enough, eventually, that almost all massive cheating ends in disgrace.

  Charlie Munger

  Grief, Men, Growth

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• Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

  Wayne Dyer

  Money, Abundance Of Love, Pick Me Up

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• People never know how strong is their lust for being cheated.

  Joe Chung

  Strong, People, Lust

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• I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.

  Pete Waterman

  Mind, Losing, Cheat

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• Do we understand the gravity of the sin of dishonesty? It is not only unchristian, it is anti-Christian...it is anti-Christ! Whether it be lying, or cheating, or robbery or deception; whether it is in the home, in business, in sports, or in the classroom; dishonesty is completely foreign to the teachings of Jesus.

  Mark E. Petersen

  Sports, Christian, Jesus

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• We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.

  Simon Schama

  Grieving, Promise, Earth

  Simon Schama (2004). “Hang-ups: Essays on Painting (mostly)”, BBC Books

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