Quotes of: False-modesty Keyword

False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.

Walter Raleigh

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

The lyrics are what I work on the hardest, but I'm not trying to make a perfectly clear message or anything like that. In fact, I'm usually trying to avoid saying something too directly, because usually that rings false anyway.

Matt Berninger

I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor. But I should be false to the earlierst sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true t...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the sc...

The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

And when in doubt, Josh, follow your heart. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this... This is always true.

The Enchantress

Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it.

False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism

It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.

The Fellowship of the Ring

Mark had a better chance interpreting body language at Madame Tussauds.

False Positives: A Techno Thriller

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

The Godfather

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Margaret Mead

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that m...

Chris Ware

The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians and governments to bear these choices alone; a sad effect of needless paternalism is that it places a false burd...

Dave deBronkart

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

Henry Fielding

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Hamlet

I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.

The Joke

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

The Nicomachean Ethics

There was a time when our desire for each other would have landed us in an asylum or prison, had it not been sanctioned by mutual assent. True or false.

Lemon

Two guys, a goat, and a ghost: A love story based on true events that may or may not be false. Who doesn’t love a good goat story?

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