Quotes About Being Conned

#1. The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

James Wolcott

#2. If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.

Jon Rappoport

#3. Fascism is aided and advanced by the apathy of those who are tired of being conned and lied to by a bankrupt liberal establishment, whose only reason to vote for a politician or support a political party is to elect the least worst. This, for many voters, is the best Clinton can offer.

Chris Hedges

#4. It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

Ian Watson

#5. Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

Tom Peters

#6. Those who willingly accept being conned are as corrupt as those who con them.

Tom Robbins

#7. We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?

Guy Ritchie

#8. When an idea, a proposition, a cause is presented to me in terms that leave me no alternative but to be for it, because it's all pros and no cons, then I know I'm being conned.

Jean-Louis Gassee

#9. Not much makes me feel uncomfortable about sexuality. It's the most natural thing in the world. I don't really get why people make such a stink. It's like being embarrassed of hunger or thirst.

Chloe Cole

#10. And if ever there's a time to move beyond one's boundaries it's when one has, literally, moved beyond them.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#11. An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. In order for marriage to endure it has to change along with us, and it does that very graciously. And in the end I find there is something kind of moving about it: the fact that people continue to insist on choosing somebody to build a life with.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#13. No woman on earth doesn't give a fuck - no woman is that cool - she's just hidden her fire. Likely, it's burning her up.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#14. Angry wears off. I needed you righteous.

Leigh Bardugo

#15. As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#16. You're forgetting ... we never get in trouble in that class. Remember I gave Mr. Hendry that lap dance last year. I'm thinking he's expecting one this year as well. - Carol

Matthew Leeth

#17. God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis.

Albert Pujols

#18. If Baz thinks I'm ever letting him go, he's wrong. I like him like this. Under my thumb. Under my hands. Not off plotting and scheming and talking to vampires.
I've got you now, I think. I've finally got you where I want you.

Rainbow Rowell

#19. Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.

Calvin Coolidge