Quotes About Being Duped

#1. Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

Mason Cooley

#2. People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.

Criss Jami

#3. The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Concetta is being duped. But you should never look down on someone for trusting the wrong person. It could happen to any of us.

Adriana Trigiani

#5. He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#6. Callin something a 'moral panic' does not imply that this something does not exist or happened at all and that reaction is based on fantasy, hysteria, delusion and illusion or being duped by the powerful.

Stanley Cohen

#7. On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.

Edwidge Danticat

#8. Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

Stephen Sondheim

#9. I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.

Dario Argento

#10. I'm tired of eating peanut butter sandwiches," said Molly Tinker. "I need a pizza.

Misty Reddington

#11. Spring still makes spring in the mind
When sixty years are told:
Love wakes anew this throbbing heart,
And we are never old
Over the winter glaciers
I see the summer glow
And through the wind-piled snowdrift
The warm rosebuds below.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Amazon is now the definitive source for data about whole sets of products - fungible consumer products. EBay is the authoritative source for the secondary market of those products. Google is the authority for information about facts, but they're relatively undifferentiated.

Tim O'Reilly

#13. Humans tended to use the terms free and freedom to indicate states of being that were anything but.

Robert Repino

#14. A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Jonathan Swift

#15. I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

George Bernard Shaw

#16. Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.

Matthieu Ricard

#17. The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought.

Nick Price

#18. The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.

Donna Tartt

#19. If the election of the Father is not universal and the regeneration of the Holy Spirit is not universal, why would the atonement of the Son be universal? That would put the persons of the Trinity completely at odds with one another-but the triune God is completely unified.

Shai Linne

#20. That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#21. Eternity bores me,
I never wanted it.
From the poem "Years", 16 November 1962

Sylvia Plath

#22. Being lost without grasping the rather obvious fact that we are lost is by far the best guarantee we have that we're going to stay lost.

Craig D. Lounsbrough