Hypocrisies Quotes

#1. The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

David Foster Wallace

#2. Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

Honore De Balzac

#3. My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

Mark Twain

#4. Our moral foundation is built on the fundamental law that God (if there is a God, which there is not) would not wish to be worshipped in the perverted and misconceived ways of human beings, with their righteous violence and prejudices and hypocrisies. Doubt, or cease being moral.

Joshua Ferris

#5. Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished.

Rebecca Solnit

#6. There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.

Victoria Chang

#7. I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.

Albert Camus

#8. The most common thing that real reporters say to me is, "I wish I could say what you say." What I don't understand is, why can't they say what I say, even in their own way? Does that mean they want to be able to name certain bald contradictions or hypocrisies that politicians have?

Stephen Colbert

#9. Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.

James Laver

#10. Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.

Saul Bellow

#11. One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith ...

Susan Sontag

#12. How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

John Muir

#13. Those who haven't been exposed to the hypocrisies of a civilized education react to things 'naturally', as they happen. It is in the here and now that they are either happy or unhappy, joyful or sad, interested or indifferent.

Henri Charriere

#14. Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course, still continued to exist - I still think it was a great moment in human history.

Henry Louis Gates

#15. All successful marriages are based on some necessary hypocrisies. It's only the unsuccessful ones where people always tell the truth to each other. The

Philip Kerr

#16. It's always easier to spot others' hypocrisies while missing our own.

Annette Gordon-Reed

#17. Who can describe
Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles,
Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies!
Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds,
The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.

Thomas Otway

#18. I think the key difference between the web and print medium is, on the web or any digital medium, you're dealing with this added element of behavior.

Khoi Vinh

#19. Bedtime is daytime,
and we come into bloom
after midnight.

Lenore Kandel

#20. I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

Jacques Derrida

#21. Let me tell you, I'm not sure if America runs on donuts, but I sure do! Nothin' like a little simple sugar icing to get the blood pumping at 9:00 A.M.

Chris Benz

#22. Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

Louise Hay

#23. We are spawn of woodland apes. No code has been undone. Neither faith nor reason will deliver us. We must look to the trees.

Sam Lipsyte

#24. Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line.

Isaac Newton

#25. It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.

Lewis Baltz

#26. I love my home, just playing games and just sleeping. No matter where you go, nothing is better than sleeping.

Rain

#27. A weak and dying Messiah is the very antithesis of a man-made cure.

Norman L. Geisler

#28. Affirmation literally means to validate or confirm. So when we think a thought over and over again, we are validating or confirming it as the truth.

Robert Anthony

#29. Though the heart may be cracked wide, pain can still seep in.

Rachelle Rea Cobb

#30. I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in strength in our land.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#31. I thought of all my rotten jobs and how glad I was to have them.
for a while.
then it was a matter of quitting or getting fired.
both felt good.

Charles Bukowski

#32. Memories don't age

Lorraine Heath