Pious Lies Quotes

#1. This business of earning your daily bread is really sad and wearisome. People come up with the most pious lies about work. It's just another abominable form of idolatry, a dog licking the rod that beats it: work.

Luther Blissett

#2. Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious.

Jose Saramago

#3. Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.

Eric Davis

#4. Dmitri clearly gives good . . . blood.

Nalini Singh

#5. Pious" is a sword that the clever always use it to eliminate the truth.

Alireza Salehi Nejad

#6. Looking at the Batman pages is like revisiting my youth. My first seven years in New York were the first seven years of Batman itself. While my time on Batman was important and exciting and notable considering the characters that came out of it, it was really just the start of my life.

Jerry Robinson

#7. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation.

Bryan Stevenson

#8. World peace is one project that we have to do together.

Yoko Ono

#9. In the end, the only thing that really matters is how we treated all living things.

Ka Chinery

#10. Those who replace love in people's life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit "pious".

Alireza Salehi Nejad

#11. Never, ever give up. You're never too old to chase your dreams. It looks like a solitary sport, but really a team effort

Diana Nyad

#12. Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

John Adams

#13. Listen carefully Usopp. For Nami's sake you can be sacrificed if necessary.

Sanji

#14. The Weeknd is the dopeness.

Hannah Simone

#15. She almost burst out laughing. He'd uttered the word talk like it was a communicable disease.

Lorelei James

#16. You have to be an outsider to write,

Martin Cruz Smith

#17. The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#18. I don't think you've been in love. Not recently, anyway. I'm not sure you remember what it's like. It compromises you. It takes over your body. Like a bareword. I think love is a bareword.

Max Barry

#19. Over the years, I've discovered that as the years go by, sometimes we are energized and enlighten and sometimes we are demoralized and disheartened to realize that in some situations our beginning is our end and in others our end is our beginning.

Martin Guevara Urbina