Deceive Quotations

My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter.

Satan tries to counterfeit the work of God, and by doing this, he may deceive many. To make us lose hope, feel miserable like himself, and believe that we are beyond forgiveness, Satan might even misuse words from the scriptures that emphasize the justice of God in order to imply that there is no mercy.

I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as if they understand what's going on; and some are elected to high office on the basis of their ability to create this impression.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver

the powerful lesson from Enron for me is the power of self delusion and how people rationalise and deceive themselves. And I think when Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling say they are innocent now, as they do with their trial approaching in early 2006, they mean it on a certain level. One smart financial observer said to me that he's never met the CEO of a fraudulent company who didn't come to believe in what he'd created.

To our knowledge, it is the first imaging study on people who lie, cheat and deceive as a group.

There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management.

We have zero tolerance for insurance agents who deceive our seniors and cheat them out of their hard-earned retirement funds.

Senators, don't be fooled by the president's excuses and spin control, ... The facts and the evidence clearly show that he knew what he was doing was to deceive everyone, including the grand jury. He and his defenders are still in denial. They will not accept the consequence of his repeated and criminal attempts to defeat the judicial process.

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive

Nevada has passed more and more laws to become the Delaware of the West, ... This type of situation can serve as a wake-up call that we like their business but not if it's going to deceive people. I don't think Nevada wants to be a haven for crooks.

I have an idea, and I have a perpetrator, and I write the book along those lines, and when I get to the last chapter, I change the perpetrator so that if I can deceive myself, I can deceive the reader.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Haughty, silent faces should not deceive us: these are the timid ones

Gwen was not there to deceive anyone. She had the right to live honestly.

Well, you know, people lead double lives. We all do to some degree. We keep certain things separate from other things. But the only way to really do that successfully for a period of time is to deceive oneself.

He cleared it up in the second day in the grand jury and he did not intend to deceive them on the first day. He corrected himself and he certainly didn't intend to fool them.

It certainly shows that he was trying to deceive the U.N., but it doesn't show that he actually had weapons in his possession at the time of the invasion.

I was a little ham and was a very open kid, probably because I was around adults all the time. That also forced me to grow up fast, and I learned at an early age about how people lie and deceive each other.

It is because of speech that men give the illusion of being free. By speaking, they deceive themselves, as they deceive others: because they say what they are going to do, who could suspect they are not masters of their actions?

The American people are of good heart ... but do not try in any way to deceive them or let this progress indicate to the world a less than sincere and prompt effort to bring about a new government.

That's a violation of our Webmaster quality guidelines, specifically the principle of 'Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users'.

You know this is a time when nobody really ever really kind of tells the truth about what they plan to do. I certainly would never deceive you in anything that I told you, so rather than deceive you I would just rather not tell you certain things.

We keep discovering additional methods Sony used to deceive Texas consumers who thought they were simply buying music. Thousands of Texans are now potential victims of this deceptive game Sony played with consumers for its own purposes.

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, He has no experience with it

You may act in secrecy, but God is still with you; you can only deceive other people.

To me, it's a misuse of the initiative process, ... It's a clear device to circumvent the Legislature and spend a lot of money on oversimplified descriptions of these propositions and hope that the Trojan horses, (which) each of these are, will deceive a bored and not well-enough-informed public into staying home or vote in a way that is against their own best interest.

Be wary, be wary, of the prosecutor who feels it necessary to deceive the court,

Commercial fund-raising firms that solicit donations must employ tactics that do not deceive consumers or the charities they represent. This agreement will ensure that Newport's future solicitations are not misleading.

And yet, they go out to teach others. They are deceived, and they deceive their companions. O Nanak, such are the leaders of men.

Enron in its simplest form was a stark and vivid lesson that a company could comply with generally accepted accounting principles and totally deceive investors at the same time.

I started paying into the local pension when I was 19. At that time, you take the advice of the government for the future - pay into a pension. You never think that they will deceive you and just take it away from you.

These leaks make a mockery of the traditional rules of grand jury secrecy. They often appear to be a cynical attempt to pressure and intimidate witnesses, to deceive the public and to smear people involved in the investigation.

Saddam Hussein played a terrible game of trying to deceive the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. Everyone bought it. The United States called him on his braggadocio, and we are all paying for the results - especially the American taxpayer.

Rather than address the fundamental reasons Wal-Mart is hurting America, Wal-Mart has decided to launch a series of cleverly named initiatives to try and deceive the American public,

AWB was prepared to deceive the UN as to the true nature of its contractual relationship with the Iraqi Grain Board.

AWB was prepared to deceive the U.N. as to the true nature of its contractual relationship with the Iraqi Grain Board.

AIG was and is a solid company that didn't need to cheat. It finds itself in this position solely because some senior managers thought it was acceptable to deceive the investing public and regulators.

This activity served to deceive the public about Enron's financial condition,

This guy, every day, deals with some of the most important issues facing the American people. You're asking him to recollect conversations, some fairly short, and he's giving his best recollections. Maybe he didn't remember correctly, but he didn't have the intent to deceive the special prosecutor or grand jury.

A lot of artists say they'd be happy in a classless society. But artists are often the first to deceive themselves. Put them in the kind of utopia they sentimentalize, and in no time, they would be binding their feet, lengthening their necks or flattening their heads, just to be different.

There was no finding by the committee that I purposely tried to deceive anyone,

The report does further document Saddam's attempts to deceive the world and get out from under the sanctions, but the fact remains, the sanctions combined with inspections were working and Saddam was restrained.

This location is close to a residential area so that it might blend in with a community. That is, it would not appear to be a suspect nuclear site in such a place. This location might deceive inspectors who would not imagine a sensitive nuclear site to be located near a neighborhood.

It never has been my intent to deceive others and I take responsibility for not providing more specific information and not being clearer on my academic credentials.

It's not the mischief in this case that would cause the (Supreme) Court to be worried. It's the next case or the case after that where there isn't a clerical mistake but there's an effort to deceive or change the result.

It tends to deceive the consumer into thinking they're buying something fresh when they are not.

Their goal is obvious to us it's destabilization. We clearly realize that the authorities are considering chances to deceive the Ukrainian people once again ahead of the elections.

I'm not denying anything. I wasn't trying to deceive anyone. But it was wrong. I overstepped the rule. It has happened before. But it won't happen in the future. I should have known better.

If you can not be sure about something unbelievable, do not jump to conclude it as hoax.If you are witnessing bizarre event right in front of you, do not jump to conclude it as real.Why? Because some people say 'seeing is believing', while the others say 'sometimes your eyes can deceive your mind'.

I at no time tried to dupe or deceive 'America' magazine. The description of the work was clear by both the text included and image provided.

A lot of young women ask me, 'Can you go into politics and maintain your ideals?' Well, I think you can. You might not, in any one interview, tell the whole truth, but to deliberately deceive the public who've elected you is totally unacceptable.

The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: ''You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.''

Me, therefore, studious of laborious ease,Not slothful, happy to deceive the time,Not waste it, and aware that human lifeIs but a loan to be repaid with use.

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

He that goes far to marry, will either deceive or be deceived