"Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling."

-- Irving Howe

#Lying Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Adjectives Quotes

“We mustn't keep meeting like this. Communications between the people of the moon and earth is forbidden...it is the way of the gods...we mustn't fall in love...but its already too late......”
“There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.”
“You don't become a Republican until you lose all your baby teeth and fall down a lot and get the croup and then become angry and bitter.”
“Today there remain but a few small areas on the world's map unmarked by explorers' trails. Human courage and endurance have conquered the Poles; the secrets of the tropical jungles have been revealed. The highest mountains of the earth have heard the voice of man. But this does not mean that the youth of the future has no new worlds to vanquish. It means only that the explorer must change his methods.”
“I've been racketeered on.”

Source : "VIDEO: Randy Quaid: Evi and I 'Cannot Function'" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 5, 2010.
“Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash so well a cop won't find it. They're always wrong.”

Source : Alafair Burke (2004). “Judgment Calls”, p.51, Macmillan
“Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.”
“Why don't we just get our population healthier so we don't need medical care?”

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