#liar

I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar. ↗

— Clive Owen

#bets #horses #i #i think #liar

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity. ↗

— Saskya Pandita

#animosity #arise #cause #familiarity #great

Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar. ↗

— James Payn

#bus #cultivating #driven #driving #exceptional

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#economic #every #expectation #general #globe

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. ↗

— Charles Peguy

#bellow #does #himself #knows #liars

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#been #collected #comics #familiar #got

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony. ↗

— Jennifer Tilly

#assumed #else #everybody #everybody else #familiarity

We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#indiscriminate #motivated #new #religiously #terrorism

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#child #during #earliest #familiar #himself

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ↗

— Max Planck

#because #convincing #die #does #eventually