Quotes About Fooling People

#1. I thought I was fooling people. But it's the old thing of 'they say vodka doesn't smell'. No, not until you sweat. And you just lie and lie and you think 'I can deal with this'. And then you finally go, 'No you can't'. And then you give up.

Robin Williams

#2. Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.

Linda Ellerbee

#3. I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.

Margaret Mead

#4. But when I failed, I convinced myself that the failures were evidence of the "real" me, and the successes were the "fake" me fooling people.

Megyn Kelly

#5. There are no plans, just people fooling themselves by attempting to design their fates and futures. It makes them feel invincible, even if it's for a transient period of time.

Kanza Javed

#6. Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail- the gumption to try and save ourselves- isn't that what he wanted us to do?

Jeannette Walls

#7. Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul; and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.

Margaret Deland

#8. Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#9. She studies to be equal in a world that is no longer surprised at anything

Andrei Makine

#10. For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.

Theodore Sturgeon

#11. We'd go to his apartment and play Kaboom! and Tank instead of fooling around. I guess to some people that might have been weird, but I got my rocks off watching someone be amazing at Duck Hunt. Whatever.

Felicia Day

#12. People who use the number of friends they have on Facebook as a metric of their social standing are fooling themselves. You can share videos of fainting goats with hundreds of acquaintances and thousands of followers, but you can trust a secret only with a handful of true friends.

David McRaney

#13. As we begin to leave Afghanistan, are we fooling ourselves about what we are leaving behind or what we have promised the people of Afghanistan? Especially the women and girls?

Greta Van Susteren

#14. all those pathetic lonely people fooling one another into their clumsy games of afterlife and cosmic relevance just to avoid noticing the nauseating sadness of their real lives.

Edgar Cantero

#15. If you persist in identifying with current or prior performance by constantly thinking and talking about it, then where you have been, where you are, and where you are going will all be one and the same

Tommy Newberry

#16. There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

George Galloway

#17. Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling.

Barbara Abercrombie

#18. Medieval anatomists called women's external genitals the "pudendum," a word derived from the Latin pudere, meaning "to make ashamed." Our genitalia were thus named "from the shamefacedness that is in women to have them seen."1

Emily Nagoski

#19. Nah. But on the first day of class, when I saw that guy nailed to the plus sign, I knew these people weren't fooling around.' " Lank

Anne Lamott

#20. People don't practice their smiles nearly enough, so when they most need to look happy they're not fooling anyone.

Chuck Palahniuk

#21. When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language.

Salman Rushdie

#22. I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

Carly Craig

#23. I say "I'm fine," because that's what you do. When someone asks how you are, you say fine, regardless of whether it's true.

Bette Lee Crosby

#24. When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! I had you and I have you now no more.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#25. The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil.

Pope Francis

#26. One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.

Gautama Buddha

#27. You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards.

Susan Howatch

#28. I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Margaret Mead

#29. Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world," I said, "but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be - it isn't a mirror, it's an aspiration.

Jasper Fforde

#30. You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.

John Carroll Lynch

#31. It dawns on me that maybe I'm just terrifically lazy; that I might be appropriating other people's invisible sicknesses and disorders and scribbling them on the clipboard at the end of my bed to fool the nurses; so I can indulge in rest cures all day, every day. That I'm even fooling myself.

Jalina Mhyana

#32. The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers; and, besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

Mark Twain

#33. Most of their lives, people are just waiting to be ambushed. ~ Brandon Hull

Jayden Hunter

#34. I wonder how it is that I'm fooling so many people, I'm doing one of the most stupid things in the world ... and people seem to be falling for it.

Cindy Sherman

#35. He was all show, and he had the conviction, as such people do, that show is the same as substance. He didn't think he was fooling other people; he had fooled himself.

Wendell Berry

#36. I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

Iain Banks

#37. I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.

Greil Marcus

#38. Some things should stay mysteries," said Metzli. "The moon would not be the same moon, if one side did not remain in the dark.

Linda Barlow

#39. People see me, and they see the suit, and they go: 'you're not fooling anyone', they know I'm rock and roll through and through. But you know that old thing, live fast, die young? Not my way. Live fast, sure, live too bloody fast sometimes, but die young? Die old.

David

#40. Taking the easy way isn't right. You need to do things properly in life to achieve the best results. People who cut corners are only fooling themselves.

Sinead Moriarty

#41. At the end of the day, I know that I make my living by dressing up, fooling around, playing pranks and giving people a good time. I am enjoying the ride.

Cyrus Broacha

#42. The Machiavelli of the 20th century will be an advertising man, his Prince, a textbook of the art and science of fooling all the people all the time.

Aldous Huxley