That one American farmer can now feed himself and fifty-six other people may be, within the narrow view of the specialist, a triumph of technology; by no stretch of reason can it be considered a triumph of agriculture or of culture. It has been made possible by the substitution of energy for knowledge, of methodology...

Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.

Where there is SMOKE there is usually FIRE. Believe NONE of what you hear and HALF of what you SEE!

The mind of man can only teach what he has learned from others. It is how you use that knowledge that will decide who you are.

Sometimes this was much harder than trying to get an alligator in a suitcase.

Good and bad, right and wrong, truth and deception, it all depends on your state of mind.

I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades.

It really comes down to greed and deception and finger-pointing,

The thing is, Ms. Embers, they aren’t exactly on our side.

They were Catholic, my lovers, All in an access of crossing themselves, Particularly their fingers, Behind their suspendered backs — And that was the women.

Cursed is the man who ceaselessly loves without fear – He will inevitably fall in love with the devil.

Just because a man is dressed in a clean white robe does not mean his heart and hands are clean. Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal. Never judge a man by his image. Images can be bought or produced by any Hollywood producer, marketing team or fleet of stylists. Even kids...

Together we agree that there are few tableaus more pathetic than a woman poring over a plethora of self-help books, while in a small café across town her husband is sharing a bottle of Pouilly-Fuissé and fettucini Alfredo with a beautiful woman, fondling her fishnet knee and making careful plans to escape his life.

I can’t count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

I love you as the mother of my child”: the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.

I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.

I’m contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives?

It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselves that they are engaged in noble and courageous acts.

And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stol’n out of holy writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

Anything someone gets conned into will never be that great.

People trust their eyes above all else – but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there

It wasn’t a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job. Keep it ‘sucka-free’, loved one!

Ab figured that the chance of his recognising it would be about the same as a burglar recognising a dollar watch that happened to get caught for a minute on his vest button five years ago

This explained to me–and I suppose, forgave me–my inability to see the face of this man, because whoever must deceive us in order to live will by necessity far exceed the skill of ordinary men, who are as much tempted by the desire to be honest as they are plagued by guilt and shame when...

i have to love myself more than i love him, in order to leave him.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Nice words and nice appearance doesn’t conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.

The power of His gentleness..In the Eye of Deception – This is my story.

When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with brilliance…that is how a chameleon behaves, the territory changes it, and it adapts to the changes.

The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers’ bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty...

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

Actually, all the life we keep deceiving eachother. Because, life is too short to hate someone.

As soon as jealousy is discovered, it is regarded by the person who is its object as a challenge which justifies deception.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.

Men lie to get laid, women lie about orgasms, and hermaphrodites lie to themselves.

You’ve seen what they wanted you to see. They gave you a blindfold to wear and convinced you it would improve your eyesight.”

The final portrait is often furthest from the truth.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

Some words are sweet but unprotifable! Some are bitter but important. First weigh your words on the counter of integrity and speak not only because your words are sweet, but because they contain the truth!

…I wanted to remove,my diamond earrings,for I felt they were,weighing a little heavy.I wanted to remove my heels,for I felt they were,taking me a little,above the ground,than I needed to be.I wanted to,throw away my blazer,for it was too much,of a thick layer,to what I am deep inside.” (Poem- Unambitious, Book- Ginger and Honey)

87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, “Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral treatise.” Yet we have scriptural authority for it: “Deceiving and being deceived.”—2 TIM. iii. 13.]

It’s amazing how people come to you griping about other individuals. However, you sometimes hear them out, and you sympathise with them. You observe them, and you see the exceptional thing they are complaining about. Yes! Beyond pleasantness is hypocrisy/deception. These and more, are the reasons why I like to understand human behaviour. Its complexity...

Just because something isn’t a lie does not mean that it isn’t deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

A man must be honest enough to make mistakes, if not he’s just lying to you

Don’t be stuck in a life that’s not yours just because of a bad habit

We tell you, tapping on our brows,The story as it should be,As if the story of a houseWere told or ever could be.

The bedrock of corruption is the attitude of selfishness. Nations are ruined when politicians think for themselves first before thinking about anyone else!