#liar

I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high. ↗

— Gene Stratton-Porter

#change

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#liars #self-deception #deception

To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was “system,” and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was “industry”, indecision when right was “caution”, and blind stubbornness when wrong, “determination. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#petty #love

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion. ↗

— William Safire

#become #companion #contents #familiar #hold

Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#administration #closest #effort #familiar #his

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive. ↗

— Tim Allen

#about #algebra #figure #good #i

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #emotion #peculiar #people #provoked

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#betrayed #fidelity #peculiar #those #virtue

You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater. ↗

— Stockard Channing

#dating #familiar #her #i #last

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#best way #big #block #books #familiar