English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

False Quotes (page 25)

Castiza: "False! I defy you both! I have endured you with an ear of fire; Your tongues have struck hot irons on my face! Mother, come from that poisonous woman there."Gratiana: "Where?"Castiza: "Do you not see her? She's too inward then. Thomas Middleton
Everyone of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self..We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves. (34) Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular.(7) Our reality, our true self, is hidden in what appears to... Thomas Merton
Renouncing false beliefs will not usher in the millennium. Few things about the strategy of contemporary apologists are more repellent than their frequent recourse to spurious alternatives. The lesser lights inform us that the alternative to Christianity is materialism, thus showing how little they have read, while the greater lights talk as if the alternative were bound to be a shallow and inane optimism. I don't believe that man will turn this earth into a bed of roses either with the... Walter Kaufmann
...it had bred false camaraderies and drawn my attention to deep flaws and fault lines when what mattered--what matters so often in the course of everyday human life--were the surfaces and the joins. Michael Chabon
Swami Vivekananda quote: "Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they..."
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Swami Vivekananda
He did all this with great concentration in order to keep his thoughts at bay, in order to let them in only one at a time, having first asked them what they contained, because you can't be too careful with thoughts, some present themselves to us with a cloying air of false innocence and then, when it's too late, reveal their true wicked selves. Jose Saramago
...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story. Ursula K. Le Guin
I don’t trust compliments. I’ve been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I didn’t. But generally when people give you compliments there’s one of two things wrong with them. Either they’re false, or what’s worse is they’re sincere. They really mean the compliment. And then they’re offering you their loyalty. And I’m kind of a stingy… Well, I don’t necessarily want to give all that loyalty back. So either way, let’s skip the compliments. Norman Mailer
RUMOUR:"Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. William Shakespeare
It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. J. R. R. Tolkien
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent..."
Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur. W. Somerset Maugham
Once in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves us, not a false imaging, an unreal character, but, looking through all the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature, - loves, not the man that we are, but the angel we may be. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all. Christopher Hitchens
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "Language is nothing but a huge set of false analogies"
Language is nothing but a huge set of false analogies Kim Stanley Robinson
08/14/1025h. Dessert Competitions.08/14/1315h. Illinois State Fair Infirmary; then motel; then Springfield Memorial Medical Center Emergency Room for distention and possible rupture of transverse colon (false alarm); then motel; incapacitated till well after sunset; whole day a washout; incredibly embarrassing, unprofessional; indescribable. Delete entire day. David Foster Wallace

Popular Topics

Popular Author