Deceitfully Quotes

#1. Had I not abruptly (and perhaps deceitfully) taken off and turned my back on them, on all my friends and family, on England itself?

Anonymous

#2. Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked.' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart.

John Eldredge

#3. In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.

Theodor W. Adorno

#4. No less instructive is the story, 'Pooh Goes Visiting,' in which Rabbit, having deceitfully offered Pooh admittance to sample his overstocked larder, artfully traps his victim in the doorway and exploits him as an unsalaried towel rack for an entire week.

Frederick C. Crews

#5. Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that "God did it" is no more than an admission of ignorance dressed deceitfully as an explanation..

Peter Atkins

#6. People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they're really proud of, that they'll fight for, sacrifice for, that they trust.

Howard Schultz

#7. Truth will allow you to keep your eyes on the road and never have to look back to see if the lie you told is following you.

Kassi Pontious

#8. A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#9. When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.

Nancy Willard

#10. Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

John Wooden

#11. I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.

Cheryl Strayed