Quotes & Sayings About Hypocrisy And Friendship

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance. — Sherry Turkle

Dogs, ye have had your day! — Alexander Pope

Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship. — Ninon De L'Enclos

I think the reason the stories are briskly paced, when they are, is that I like story. I like stories where things happen and there are surprises and reversals, in addition to vivid characters and a memorable voice. So those are the kinds of stories I try to write. And it turns out that's pretty much the only kind of writing that works for TV. It's a medium that just devours story, demands surprises and reversals. So my sensibility is suited to TV storytelling, at least as we think of it today. — Nick Antosca

I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is. — Lisa Unger

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach. — Paulo Coelho

Now on a personal level with things like the California Tax Commission ... I really think if people started banding together and saying no to this it could snowball and that could really help. — Joe Eszterhas

says he 'welcomes sinners and eats with them.'14 Now, think about that. In his culture, to dine with someone meant to offer friendship. The word welcome in Greek means that he took great pleasure in them. Jesus doesn't delight in sin, but he liked being around these people, maybe because they were well aware of their depravity, unlike many of the religious folks who masked it with hypocrisy. — Lee Strobel

My mother will never leave me. We're together. She will always stay in my heart. — Oksana Baiul

The Easter egg which was not found
contained a letter from the hen who laid it,
saying Fuck your kids,
What about mine? — Shay Caroline

Flaubert teaches you to gave upon the truth and not blink from its consequences; he teaches you, with Montaigne, to sleep on the pillow of doubt; he teaches you to dissect out the constituent parts of reality, and to observe the Nature is always a mixture of genres; he teaches you the most exact use of language; he teaches you not to approach a book in search of moral or social pills
literature is not a pharmacopoeia; he teaches the pre-eminence of Truth, Beauty, Feeling and Style. And if you study his private life, he teaches courage, stoicism, friendship; the importance of intelligence, skepticism and wit; the folly of cheap patriotism; the virtue of being able to remain by yourself in your own room; the hatred of hypocrisy; distrust of the doctrinaire; the need for plain speaking. — Julian Barnes

To get where we want to be, we must first trust, then make the leap of faith that our Heavenly Father will allow us to soar. — Tommy Jones

[...] the quiet break of soul that comes when you realize that what looked like a rainbow was actually only a trick of the light. — Jodi Picoult

In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality. — Tsai Ing-wen

Just realized what matters to most people doesn't make it matters to me, but what matters for those close to me should make it matters to me — Sartika Kurniali

It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too. — Tom Waits

I would love it if we made more comparisons between current issues and issues of the past. Maybe we'd realize that sometimes 'current issues' and 'past issues' are one and the same. Our world's people still fight over natural resources, kill in the name of religion, occupy regions and give them up - just as we did 'so long ago.' — Adora Svitak

Show me what you've written, I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it. — Osamu Dazai