Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.
Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.
This is evangelicalism today: sensual, carnal, unconverted people that have just enough deceptive religion to drive them straight into Hell! Are you that kind of person? Or do you have new affections?
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.
Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.
The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.
But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.
Few things are more deceptive than memories.
Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.
Vodka is a very deceptive drink. You can't taste it, you can't smell it.
Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!
Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.
Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.
Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.
Pictures can be pretty deceptive.
