Family Deceiving Quotes

The pathway looks like an easy path, but in reality, looks are deceiving. It's not easy, but the path brings forth the meaning of optimism. The road we travel will have some good and bad, but we have to look for the good in all that we do and in every situation. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Maybe I'm deceiving myself. Perhaps I don't know him as well as I'd like to imagine. What does a person so willing to utterly remake himself hold inside his heart? Can I trust such a man? What motivates him?
In an instant she knew, and she felt a bit of relief.
Love. Love was what drove him. ~ David Bowles

Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended, described, but closer it begins to separate, to break into light and shadow, the density blinds one. Within there is no form, only prodigious detail that reaches everywhere: exotic sounds, spills of sunlight, foliage, fallen trees, small beasts that flee at the sound of a twig-snap, insects, silence, flowers.
And all of this, dependent, closely woven, all of it is deceiving. There are really two kinds of life. There is, as Viri says, the one people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is this other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see. ~ James Salter

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies. ~ Kofi Abrefa Busia

My religion is not deceiving myself. ~ Milarepa

Appearances often are deceiving. ~ Aesop

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. ~ John Locke

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others. ~ Horace

To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all. ~ Elspeth Huxley

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves. ~ Eric Hoffer

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving. ~ Elvis Costello

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with untruth, seek truth! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. ~ Francis Cornford

When one is in love one begins by deceiving one's self. And one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance." - Oscar Wilde ~ Ashton Cartwright

In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others. ~ Oscar Wilde

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence. ~ Bertrand Russell

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving. ~ Aaron Hill

Banal or not, looks are deceiving,
And all that glitters is not gold –
And yet, we cannot help believing
What meets the eye – it's uncontrolled. ~ Tatyana K. Varenko

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts. ~ Kerry King

Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion. ~ Guru Nanak

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life. ~ Adrienne Rich

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself. ~ Bodhidharma

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. ~ George Henry Lewes

I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another. ~ Osamu Dazai

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. ~ Oscar Wilde

Don't lose who you are in the blur of the stars Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing ~ Jessie J.

Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it. ~ Dean Koontz

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me. ~ Camillo Di Cavour

Family is just accident, Jessie. It's nothing personal, hon. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are. ~ Marsha Norman

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. ~ Brad Henry

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys. ~ Bobby Darin

You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. ~ Joseph Kesselring

Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient ~ Marcel Proust

Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires. ~ Wes Fesler

A theatrical spectacle is inherent whenever family members congregate and reacquaint themselves with powerful universal themes educed from homecomings including hugs, food, drink, conversation, politics, games, music, conflict, terror, mercy, smiles, tears, prayers, misfortune, and self-discovery. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them. ~ Bertrand Russell

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street. ~ Willie Stargell

Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is. ~ Madonna

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. ~ Hannah Arendt

If the angle you're going at is there's some kind of quid pro quo - there isn't. Business is business, and people are allowed to make money. Looks can be deceiving, because there's no quid pro quo here. ~ Mike Miller

We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action. ~ Vladimir Lenin

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained. ~ Winston S. Churchill

They say family's first, but family is the first to get you hurt ~ Chrisper Malamsha

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. ~ Hugo Black

Family cannot be determined by blood. Family is determined by actions. Family is about trust. Family is about acceptance. Family is about love. True family is earned, not born. ~ Sarah Brianne

No normal sheet of paper could possibly trace their family tree, which in any case was more like a mangrove thicket. ~ Terry Pratchett

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. ~ Oscar Wilde

The most important parts of building a family are "God's Love" and "Meaningful Friendships. ~ Phil Mitchell

We owe some of our family members respect, but do not owe any of them love. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Family isn't blood," she said bitterly, continuing to back away. "Family is who loves you, who takes care of you. ~ Bruce Coville

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know. ~ Mitch Albom

Beauty will never fade away from the eyes of those who love one another. ~ Auliq Ice

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth. ~ Julianna Baggott

Those two are trying to hide,' Chéri thought. 'They're deceiving someone somewhere. The whole world's busy deceiving and being deceived. But I . . .' He did not finish the sentence, but a repugnance made him jump to his feet, an action that meant, 'But I am chaste.' A faint ray of light, flickering uncertainly over stagnant, hitherto unfeeling regions of his inmost being, was enough to suggest that chastity and loneliness are one and the same misfortune. ~ Colette

Never deceive a friend. ~ Hipparchus

Large families are communities unto their own. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary ... We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and ... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company. ~ Giacomo Casanova

Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was the last woman standing. ~ Liz Rosenberg

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent. ~ Robert Breault

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective. ~ Robert Breault

I mean its an obsession, you follow the obsession but at the same time you have so many doubts, you know. Why am I wasting so much money going back to this place, taking more pictures? What's the point of it? No one cares about it. I think I care about it but maybe I am deceiving myself. ~ Alex Webb

It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don't have a life. ~ Robin McKinley

William loathed his family,' Mercer said. 'With cause. ~ Garth Risk Hallberg

Pack was family, and family loved you even when you screwed up. They were her family, even if they didn't realize it yet, Kassi thought. ~ Francesca Vance

Fetty Wap's not one person. Fetty Wap consists of a tight family. When I go out as Fetty Wap, I represent the whole family. The family is RGF [Productions]. ~ Fetty Wap

You're allowed to hold your family at arm's length, family can be toxic, family can be abusive, family can belittle you, invalidate you, or make you feel unsafe, you don't need to explain yourself to anyone who disagrees. ~ Amanda Lovelace

You don't turn your back on family, even when they do. ~ Aboubakar Msangi

My family tree has many branches, both living and dead... but all equally important. I cherish the memories that make its roots run deep. ~ Lynda I Fisher

Family are those we pick along the way. ~ Pablo Pereira

It is sometimes hard to be a family. ~ Maurice Sendak

Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is termed infallible and inerrant to express the conviction that all its teaching is the utterance of God who cannot lie, whose word, once spoken, abides for ever, and that therefore it may be trusted implicitly. ~ J.I. Packer

Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood. ~ DaShanne Stokes

However, become doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves with false reasoning. ~ Anonymous

Family isn't just parents and kids. It's not only DNA. Real family, the family that matters... it's about the connection we make to people. A connection that's so strong, it might just rewrite your programming. ~ Lee Bacon

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person. ~ Linda Cardellini

I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family. ~ Bobby Flay

I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort
in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look! ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family. ~ Anna Wintour

Family is family,' sighed the gondolier. 'Family is everything,' declared Marta Gasperin, bending to kiss the old man on the cheek, at which he flushed. She added mischievously, 'Family and books, of course. ~ Michelle Lovric

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence. ~ Rosamunde Pilcher

You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family. ~ Julius Erving

Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!' ~ Garret Dillahunt

One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists. ~ Rufus Wainwright

It appears to be a re-run of a bad movie. [Iraqi President Saddam Hussein] is delaying. He's deceiving. He's asking for time. He's playing hide-and-seek with inspectors. One thing is for certain - he's not disarming. ~ George W. Bush

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. ~ George Carlin

Treating people genuinely nice often leads to disappointment when they just don't bother to treat you back the same way. ~ Sahara Sanders

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine. ~ Gail Carriger

Every family is a family of alligators. ~ Lorrie Moore

Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals. ~ Carl Jung

He that once deceives is ever suspected. ~ George Herbert

My family is as far from a stage family as you could ever possibly find. ~ Ryan Reynolds

I live quietly at home among my family and friends. ~ Antonio Tabucchi

A wise man once told me family don't end in blood, but it doesn't start there either. Family cares about you, not what you can do for them. Family's there through the good, bad, all of it. They got your back even when it hurts. That's family ~ Eric Kripke

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them. ~ Ashley Montagu