Quotes & Sayings About Defending Yourself Against Lies

Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want. — Frank Gehry

I sort of look at acting like that: if you have no confines, you have everywhere to go. — Summer Phoenix

The days are long enough for those who use them. — Leonardo Da Vinci

But then the subject turned to the spiritual life and Meg talked about her many visits to ashrams in India and her admiration for Swami Muktananda and Gurumayi. That got in the way, especially because he told her of his skepticism regarding the guru industry, and suggested she might profitably read Gita Mehta's book Karma Cola. "Why are you so cynical?" she asked him, as if she genuinely wanted to know the answer, and he said that if you grew up in India it was easy to conclude that these people were fakes. "Yes, of course there are lots of charlatans," she said, reasonably, "but can't you discriminate?" He shook his head sadly. "No," he said. "No, I can't." That was the end of their chat. — Salman Rushdie

I have always been a fan of reality by majority vote — Stephen Colbert

I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again. — Bill Bradley

We will reflect the country we aspire to govern, and the sound of modern Britain is a complex harmony, not a male voice choir. — David Cameron

The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger. — Lord Chesterfield

We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Freedom is having real choice. This offers a limited amount of choices. This is participating in a very imperfect system that we're desperately hanging onto, that we don't want to see further eroded. — Darryl Pinckney

Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me. Sexually it was crazy. That's all I'll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm. — John Mayer

It will be God that brings out the peace in your life and calm in your heart each and every day. — Ron Baratono