The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. —André Gide More about this quote Tags: lies deception hypocrisy sincerity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
[It is] not fair to say that I have misinformed Congress or other cabinet officers. I haven't testified to that. I've testified that I withheld information from Congress. And with regard to the cabinet officers, I didn't withhold anything from them that they didn't want withheld from them. —Rear Admiral John Poindexter, in his testimony on the Iran-contra affair More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible. —Franz Kafka More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. —Harriet Beecher Stowe More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Schofield Kid (a young gunfighter feeling guilt after his first killing): It don't seem real. . . . Now he's dead and the other one too. All on account of pulling a trigger. Will Munny: It's a helluva thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have. Kid: Well, I guess they had it coming. Munny: We all have it coming, kid. —David Webb Peoples, in his screenplay for the film Unforgiven More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice — that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it." —Sydney J. Harris More about this quote Tags: childhood responsibility adulthood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never ruin an apology with an excuse. —Kimberly Johnson More about this quote Tags: regret apology excuses Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights. But on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones I've never gotten credit for. —Glenn Gould More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public-relations officers. —Daniel Boorstin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I had kept all these things neatly sorted and filed and labelled, it would save me a lot of trouble. However, it is a pleasure sometimes, when looking vaguely through a pile of old note-books to find something scribbled down, as: Possible plot—do it yourself—girl and not really sister—August— with a kind of sketch of a plot. What it's all about I can't remember now; but it often stimulates me, if not to write that identical plot, at least to write something else. —Agatha Christie in An Autobiography More about this quote Tags: writing organization piles plot Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you're not there anymore. It's better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal. —Mary Karr More about this quote Tags: reading presence drugs disassociation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you don't love yourself, you'll always be chasing after people who don't love you either. —Mandy Hale in The Single Woman More about this quote Tags: love others self self-love persuit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind. —Gayle Forman in Just One Day More about this quote Tags: feeling presence space absence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you. —Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me More about this quote Tags: action life advice ownership self trust control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email