#lies

I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang. ↗

— Richard Chamberlain

#better #boomerang #dangerous #everyone #feel

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#individual #individual men #men #men and women #society

Television is democracy at its ugliest. ↗

— Paddy Chayefsky

#democracy #television #ugliest

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#around #country #flies #heads #kids

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky. ↗

— Cher

#art #buy #come #creative #fantastic

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men. ↗

— Giorgio de Chirico

#butterflies #catches #common #distraction #fatal

Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other. ↗

— Chris Christie

#ahead #become #biggest #biggest challenge #challenge

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#attended #bodyguard #lies #precious #she

There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is. ↗

— Guy Clark

#any #applies #as far as #brought #especially

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#child #confound #does #educator #evil