"Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please."

-- Shirley Hazzard

#Lying Quotes #Wish Quotes #Please Quotes

“The foolhardy are not necessarily stupid, for fools simply follow their imagination whereas the stupid have none.”
“Everything is being transformed under the magic influence of science and technology. And every day, if we want to live with open eyes, we have a problem to study, to resolve.”
“I'm not going to sing something if it doesn't make sense to me, or if it makes me look like I'm begging someone or I'm weak, because that's not me.”

Source : "Sharon Jones on soul music, cancer, and Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Kyle Fowle, music.avclub.com. January 15, 2014.
“The provision is in the promises.”

Source : Derek Prince (1997). “If You Want Gods Best”, p.7, Whitaker House
“Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.”
“Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.”

Source : Daisy Ashford (2016). “The Young Visiters”, p.43, Daisy Ashford
“I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play.”
“Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.”

Source : Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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