Deceit Quotes - Page 25

• While the prosecution has said this is about the defendants lies, one worries that those lies already have been buried under too much discussion of technical issues. The jury may be lost already.

  David Berg

  Lying, Issues, Worry

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• That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

  John Locke

  Art, Lying, Confusing

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• The heart of the hypocrite is hid in his breast he masketh his words in the semblance of truth, while the business of his life is only to deceive.

  Akhenaton

  Lying, Hypocrite, Heart

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• The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Women, Garden, Stills

  Joseph Glanvill (1985). “Collected works of Joseph Glanvill”

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• All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape.

  Henry Miller

  Lying, Creativity, Men

  Henry Miller (2016). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.8, New Directions Publishing

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• You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies

  Richard Price

  Lying, Creativity, Character

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• Faith stands or falls on the truth that the future with God is more satisfying than the one promised by sin. Where this truth is embraced and God is cherished above all, the power of sin is broken. The power of sin is the power of deceit. Sin has power through promising a false future. In temptation sin comes to us and says: "The future with God on his narrow way is hard and unhappy, but the way I promise is pleasant and satisfying." The power of sin is in the power of this lie.

  John Piper

  Lying, Fall, Broken

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• You can't receive forgiveness unless you let God deal with your deceit.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Letting Go

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• Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

  Steven Erikson

  Compassion, Justice, Promise

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• The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

  Walter Raleigh

  Lying, Gains, Dishonesty

  "The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh".

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• Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

  Vernon Howard

  Honesty, Healing, Self

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• The look of love alarms
  Because 'tis filled with fire;
  But the look of soft deceit
  Shall win the lover's hire.

  William Blake

  Love, Fire, Alarms

  "Complete Writings: With Variant Readings". Book by William Blake, 1966.

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• I will tell you privately it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse all the time, but don't fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let's not talk about this, ever again.

  Bobby Jones

  Lying, Golf, Play

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• I'll be a grieving mom until I die because of the lies that took my son, ... I plan on keeping this up until the troops are brought home.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Mom, Lying, Home

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• These ministries have merged pseudo-science with religious beliefs to create, in effect, a new religion, ... Eventually they will collapse under the weight of their deceit. But as long as they survive we will have trouble winning any political battles.

  Wayne Besen

  Religious, Lying, Winning

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• I was fighting it left all day, just enough to get myself in difficult positions to get up and down. The par 5s have been good to be all week, and the three places I missed, I didn't get good lies.

  Darren Clarke

  Lying, Fighting, Three

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• White in the moon the long road lies.

  A. E. Housman

  Lying, Moon, White

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

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• What we're trying to do is determine if our shareholders and customers have been misled. We can't think of a single shareholder who would believe that the PSC order isn't in their best interest.

  Chad Jones

  Lying, Believe, Thinking

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• Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Errors, Rotten

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• These two points are lies. UN Resolution 2758 does not say a word about the relationship between Taiwan and China, let alone say that the PRC represents Taiwan

  Annette Lu

  Lying, Two, Doe

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• The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

  Phil Ochs

  Lying, Believe, Men

  Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.

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• Barbara said she knew it was in as soon as she shot it. She's told me a lot of lies over the last four years, but that was the biggest one I've ever heard.

  Geno Auriemma

  Lying, Years, Four

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• The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy.' I'm like, 'What?' I don't walk up to a friend and go 'That's a stylin' looking vortex of apathy you've got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself.'

  Devin Townsend

  Swimming, Rivers, Apathy

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• All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a state of poverty, especially the farmers, working class people and the very poor. Then as now Jews have to be reminded intermittently anew that they were enjoying rights in any country since they left Palestine and the Arabian desert, and subsequently their ethical and moral doctrines as well as their deeds rightly deserve to be exposed to criticism in whatever country they happen to live.

  Pope Clement VIII

  Country, Class, Rights

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• There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.

  Robert Palmer

  Sweet, Revenge, Men

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