In my relations with my husband, there was never any deceit... he never said he was going out on business; he would say he was going to a show, and I would say, 'Fine.'
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine.
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
I've always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of - I just sung a lot.
I've got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that you'd have to decipher. I guess I try to never take myself too seriously.
I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.
The tasks of paleontologists and classical historians and archaeologists are remarkably similar - to excavate, decipher and bring to life the tantalizing remnants of a time we will never see.
I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.
I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit.
I never played the 'decoration,' I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women.
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.
Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost.
