False Quotes - page 12

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'. (Charlaine Harris)
False humility is more insulting than open pride! View quote
Brandon Mull
I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it was creating a false history. When I did finally share the problems I was having, I was shocked - not only by the support that was given to me, but also by the incredible amount of people who admitted they struggled with the same thing. View quote
Jenny Lawson
If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic. View quote
Jean Rhys
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. View quote
Ethel Barrymore
The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John's own fear and doubt. View quote
Elaine Pagels
As soon as you opened your mouth and said the word woman, you were beaten down with the argument that you were betraying the class struggle. There are many poignant writings in which feminists first write pages about their class standpoint before getting to their actual issue. What was then known as class warfare is today called anti-racism. The threat of being accused of racism gave birth to false tolerance. View quote
Alice Schwarzer
Of course we in Europe also have epidemic, structural sexual violence. Violence is always the dark core of dominance. The men who are now coming to us from Islamic cultural circles are, of course, shaped by conditions there, which are still much more antiquated than here. That's a problem that we have ignored for far too long. In the name of a false tolerance, we have accepted that women are kept at home like prisoners and are forcibly married. View quote
Alice Schwarzer
The outburst of sexual freedom in the '60s was bound to happen because the '50s were so oppressing. You had to live that way; women had to be like this - it was all locked into a false reality. View quote
Christopher Lloyd
When we can build community based on truth and authenticity, rather than masks, false perfection, and being phoney, we heal, connect, and thrive. View quote
Lissa Rankin
[But if things continue the way they are] ...the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war. (Ahad Ha'am)
Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language. View quote
David Crystal
I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses. View quote
Janet Frame
True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz of commercial distraction and false social realities. We have to retreat into our own cocoons and come face-to-face with who we are. We have to turn toward our own inner darkness. For only by abandoning its attachments and facing the darkness does the caterpillar's body begin to spread out and its light, beautiful wings begin to form. View quote
Julia Butterfly Hill
My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal. View quote
Emmeline Pankhurst
We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing. View quote
Helene Cixous
And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people. View quote
Alberto Fujimori
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty. View quote
Alex Kapranos
It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct. View quote
Anna Howard Shaw
The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning. View quote
Anne-Marie Slaughter
As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday. (Ashley Jensen)
As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means. View quote
Chris Ware
I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort. View quote
Christy Turlington
If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless. View quote
Crystal Eastman
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man. View quote
Carroll O'Connor