#liar

I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#billiards #i #i love #including #love

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel. ↗

— James Dickey

#deprived #detachment #entitled #feel #feeling

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#fool #hey #i #liar #magician

All objects lose by too familiar a view. ↗

— John Dryden

#lose #objects #too #view

I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#absolute #absolutely #already #anything #each

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were. ↗

— Hans Blix

#cent #certainty #could #existed #found

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cannot #deeply #enough #enough people #familiar

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#been #better #difficulty #effect #experience

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived. ↗

— Sissela Bok

#deceived #desire #liars #share #those

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#amused #contempt #eyes #looking #looks