Deceptive Quotes

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don`t want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there`s a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly. So appearances can be deceptive, particularly in Hollywood.

(1976 comment on Bing Crosby) He stays in his room when he is working on a new number or planning a show. The casual air is deceptive. He is relaxed but not lazy.

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

Sade`s stuff is real deceptive. She`s got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie.

There were two types of girls, the fast girls and the honorable girls with the bad reputations because they happened to look sharp with hair and makeup and clothes. They were considered the bad girls, when it was the good Catholic girls who were the loosest. Appearances were deceptive then.

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.

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

By preying on those who can least afford to lose their money, this operation is doing little more than stealing, ... These unscrupulous business practices must be stopped, and victims of these unfair and deceptive acts should be made whole.

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.