Dark Deception Quotes

#1. But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.

Frederick Pollock

#2. We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in a man's head for sanity alongside each grief, each worry, each terror that he owns. I'm well used to burying such things in a dark cellar and moving on.

Mark Lawrence

#3. Keep the enemy in the dark about where and when our forces will attack.

Mao Zedong

#4. I love that she loves me a 10, on a 5-point scale. Well, I know it's a 5-point scale, though I asked her on a 1-100 scale.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#5. If any man can convince me and bring home to me that which I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius

#6. The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace

James Madison

#7. True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

John W. Gardner

#8. I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids ... my older parents and my preachers and everybody.

Terry Bradshaw

#9. Love! In the midst of darkness, you're my guiding light.

Debasish Mridha

#10. That's what a good book does-it puts readers on their knees. It makes you want to believe in a world you just read about-the one that will make you feel different about the world you thought you lived in, the world that will never be the same.

Pat Conroy

#11. I am happy in Paris.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#12. There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

Bobby Heenan

#13. Leave me alone, you big fat shitburger!

Chris Crutcher

#14. She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.

Nenia Campbell

#15. This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

Holly Black

#16. To the eternal "Opinions are like assholes - everybody's got one," I just say, "Yeah, but not everybody's got ten thousand of them." It distresses me that the wit of this riposte so often fails to impress the asshole I'm talking to.

Robert Christgau

#17. To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#18. A black dress is beautiful! It's a good choice. It could be the wrong choice at certain events or situations, but it's very rare that you see a girl who looks bad in a black dress.

Olivier Theyskens

#19. If you are a true investor, it does not matter if the markets are going up or coming down. A true investor does well in any market condition.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#20. ... Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently?
What do you mean, odd?'
Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.

Jasper Fforde