Deception Point Quotes

#1. 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

#2. There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction ... no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.

Irvine Welsh

#3. I just can't believe that there won't come a day when people won't be fed-up with being overfed. That they won't get fed-up with the self-deception that all this fantastic food is the whole point of life.

Gudrun Ensslin

#4. You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

Bob Dylan

#5. You flambe one car and now you think every song with fire is about you," Logan says. "Get over yourself, Catalano.

Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

#6. The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

A.S. Byatt

#7. Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. A smile to someone could make the difference between them going home and axe murdering their family or having a nice meal!

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#9. [Optimism] is not about providing a recipe for self-deception. The world can be a horrible, cruel place, and at the same time it can be wonderful and abundant. These are both truths. There is not a halfway point; there is only choosing which truth to put in your personal foreground.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#10. When we come face-to-face with the tender, forgiving eye of our Redeemer, only then will we gain the power to forgive ourselves - and those who have used us. In light of the forgiveness Christ has offered us, how can we offer less to those who have hurt us?

Leslie Ludy

#11. Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the norm in this age of darkness.

Frederick Lenz

#12. I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

Manuel Puig

#13. The life of a couple is lived on the mental level of the more mediocre of the two beings who compose it.

Andre Maurois

#14. Let us express our deepest gratitude for every moment that we spend in loving, laughing, and living out time that we call life.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Geographically speaking, you can't get to where you want to be unless you know where you are the begin with. You need a reference point. Similarly, you can't get to where you want to be in life until you are willing to admit where you are to begin with. Self-deception makes that next to impossible.

Andy Stanley