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Appearances are deceptive.
Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.
Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.
Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!
Few things are more deceptive than memories.
The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.
As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.
The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.
The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.
I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.
Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.
The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.
Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.
Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.
It is high time the TRS leaders understood the deceptive psyche of the Congress party and its leadership.
Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
Don't be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I'm paddling away like a duck beneath the water.
'What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum.
I think that there are deceptive forces out there that will try to lead us away from God, and we really do need to be careful.
Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.
We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought our economy to its knees in 2008.
My face is so slim that it is the most deceptive part of my body. Looking at my face, people think I am a very thin and delicate person.
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
The deceptive, glossy media images of faces, bodies and social lifestyles, make us hate ourselves so we will buy a solution to love ourselves once again.
Almost every bowler bowls a slower ball, but not many can be deceptive. A slower ball can only be deceptive if it is different, if it is floating, swinging.
Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.
Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie.
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.
My speed as a tall guy is deceptive. You look at me and I might not look fast, but when I go out and play, people are left scratching their heads like 'Where did that come from?'
American tax dollars spent on education are meant to support students, not support aggressive, deceptive, and misleading marketing campaigns by certain for-profit education companies.
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
Research indicates that a pause tends to be a signal that a cluster of deceptive cues is on its way. This is a key reason why voters routinely associate Trump with authenticity: He rarely pauses.
People who are deceptive themselves have a really good ear for deception. They know when somebody's telling the truth or not, and so one of the ways around that is to always be telling the truth - or some version of it.
There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.
As an Egyptian-American, I want both sides of that hyphen to enjoy the forms of freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment, as I want both sides of that hyphen to move beyond the deceptive simplicity of the question, 'Why do they hate us?'
One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.
Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.