Deception Quotes - Page 9

Appearances are deceptive and behaviors reflective.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

The enemy knows that without surrender, we will never experience the freedom that God offers us. Without surrender, we will remain spiritually malnourished, ill and confused. Without surrender, our foxholes become prisons of the enemy's making. Our lack of full surrender limits God's ability to both work in our lives and through our lives.God's call to surrender is not an intimidating, angry bark heard from the other side of a battlefield. God's invitation to surrender is expressed through the example of his Son, Jesus, as described in Philippians 2:5-11.

Comrade, you can deceive us. Anyone can―for a time. But not a very long time.

Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides.

But this is deception. It’s moving very fast, and just because you can’t see and feel it, doesn’t mean it’s not the truth.

Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.

Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again.

Politics is a delicate art of saying what people want to hear and doing what people don't want to hear

But in these modern times it may be decidedly asserted as a fact, that vice, in accomplishing the vast majority of its seductions, uses no disguise at all; appears impudently in its naked deformity; and, instead of horrifying all beholders, in accordance with the prediction of the classical satirist, absolutely attracts a much more numerous congregation of worshippers than has ever yet been brought together by the divinest beauties that virtue can display for the allurement of mankind.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.

There's something about the thousands of glittering lights, the veil of nighttime that almost makes this place beautiful, especially in the reflection of the water. It makes everything askew, disoriented. There's more truth in a ripple of water than in a clear day.

I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.

Sometimes this was much harder than trying to get an alligator in a suitcase.

When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do.

The snow was endless, a heavy blanket on the outdoors; it had a way about it. A beauty. But I knew that, like many things, beauty could be deceiving.

If the map doesn't agree with the ground the map is wrong

If I close my eyes, I do not see anything but, if I imagine, I see something. To look beyond what you look and see, use your minds eye and not your eyes

The thing is, Ms. Embers, they aren’t exactly on our side.

No denial of the truth will ever invalidate it.

A man who lacks understanding is susceptible to deception

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

Strength other than that received from God is just hype manufactured by men.