"You are allowed to lie a little, but you must never mislead."

-- Paul Halmos

#Lying Quotes #Mislead Quotes

“I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.”
“Sentence first, verdict afterwards.”
“I can't resist telling you that when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote speaker, my father [John Kenneth Galbraith]. The leading economists of the Austrian school- including von Hayek and von Haberler - returned for the occasion. And so my father took a moment to reflect on the economic triumphs of the Austrian Republic since the war, which, he said, "would not have been possible without the contribution of these men." They nodded - briefly - until it dawned on them what he meant. They'd all left the country in the 1930s.”
“I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense of liberation. It was not the Negro who became free, but I.”
“I have more energy to run after our four children. Weight loss and great skin were a bonus!”
“The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.”

Source : "In Defense of Elitism". Book by William A. Henry III, 1994.
“People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there's no one way. It's your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It's your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it.”

Source : "Big, Easy Style: Creating Rooms You Love to Live In". Book by Bryan Batt, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.
“When I went back to Shea last year it really hit me how much the fans care for me, it still gives me goose bumps. I want to do the right thing for them and my family.”

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