There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.
Laura Moncur
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The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
BIBLE The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.
DEREK LANDY Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat
SOURCE UNKNOWN The mind is like a razor; it only works when sharp.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.
LEWIS B. SMEDES The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop bei...
JAMES WOLCOTT Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. We don't lie to protect the other person. We lie to protect ourselves from the consequences. We lie ...
ELISA MARIE HOPKINS The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
BUDDHA The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Iron is full of impurities that weaken it: through forging, it becomes steel and is transformed into...
MORIHEI UESHIBA There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
KATHARINE BUTLER HATHAWAY There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
KATHARINE BUTLER HATHAWAY There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
KATHERINE HATHAWAY There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend
KATHARINE BUTLER HATHAWAY There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What c...
JODI PICOULT The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.
BRAD MELTZER To cut a whetstone with a razor.
ANDREW FLETCHER To cut a whetstone with a razor.
ANDREW FLETCHER, LORD INNERPEFFER (1) The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core o...
DEREK LANDY The slap of a friend is trusted to help you...but the kisses of an enemy is nothing but lies
ANONYMOUS The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
V.S. NAIPAUL In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.
ELLEN J. LANGER I can be kind of razor sharp in my disapproval.
JANE LYNCH Dreams are just lies that we tell ourselves while we're asleep.
REBECCA MCNUTT Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We aren't telling ourselves lies; we're composing heroic narratives that tell us essential truths ab...
DAN MCADAMS ...The lies we tell, and let ourselves believe, in the name of love.
The first thing you ...
CARLA BUCKLEY One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's...
H. RAP BROWN Finally, it's not the lies we tell others that do the most damage, it's those we tell ourselves. Fro...
ANTHONY MCCARTEN Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain
to be there even...
M. SCOTT PECK I think there is room out there to show the grace and dignity of women like Laura Bush.
DANA PERINO Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to ...
JIM MORRISON Life's irony;It is only when there is a quarrel,you can actually differentiate between a bad friend ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
ANSEL ADAMS we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. T...
DERRICK JENSEN There is nothing more dangerous to a person other than a good friend of his conversation, but bad de...
LYZ STANDSTRODE It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
GEORGE W. BUSH A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
WASHINGTON IRVING Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules...
JIM MORRISON The confidence of vision begins with a teacher who believes in you, who pulls and pushes and guides ...
LILY CHATTERJEE History is a complex web of lies, truths and confusion. The true nature of a historian is not to cut...
VARTOMIO CAIN A mind is only as sharp as the knife, that strives to cut through thoughts
too tough for the bl...
ANTHONY LICCIONE The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won t...
PRIYA ARDIS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping...
DAVID HEWSON If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and ...
TODD RUNDGREN We should tell ourselves, once and for all, that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy...
MAURICE MAETERLINCK We have a stove in there. It's exactly like the school she describes in her book. We twist hay to pu...
BOB SULLIVAN It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
GEORGE W. BUSH There is a lot of negativity and bad habits that just need to be cut out of our lives. Sometimes we ...
S.R. CRAWFORD Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
MEL GIBSON Eve held his eyes and confidently licked the length of the razor-sharp blade with the tip of her ton...
DEBRA ANASTASIA I don't like to tell lies.
HAL ASHBY I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE I told him he couldn't have it all. So he pulled out this razor thing and cut off part of the mouse....
TINY ANDERSON We tell blatant lies to one another. We tell blatant lies to our children.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE SMITH A sharp tongue and a dull mind are usually found in the same head.
UNKNOWN The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The boat rocked perilously as they heaved and tore at the clinging weeds, razor-sharp and strong as ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS In the professional societies to which we both belong (American Studies Association, American Folklo...
PATRICIA TURNER To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and ...
PETER MCWILLIAMS A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good frie...
ARTHUR BRISBANE The agenda is to tell a good story. That's all we really want to do, tell a good story about a good ...
JACK KENNY Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses. It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger...
TOBA BETA Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway...
ERIC HOFFER Friendship Never explain / your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway....
ERIC HOFFER Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM The edges of my world are sharp, and they cut.
LESLIE MIKLOSY Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it—you can see it all over their faces.
RON ATKINSON There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
LINDA GRAYSON There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
CHARLES DICKENS Your fangs aren't as sharp as your tongue.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS The truth and lies cannot be friend. They cannot stay to gather in you for life time.There is nothin...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER Nothing that a bottle of Jack and a straight razor won't fix.
THE WEDDING DATE Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES The biggest lies we save for ourselves.
MARK LAWRENCE
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LAURA PREPON Free love sounds great.
LAURA PREPON I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belon...
LAURA PREPON I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, ...
LAURA PREPON In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is ...
LAURA PREPON When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything,...
LAURA PREPON I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
LAURA PREPON On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's ...
LAURA PREPON I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you...
LAURA PREPON There's nothing you could say that would shock me.
LAURA PREPON The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't bel...
LAURA PREPON Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.
LAURA PREPON I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
LAURA PREPON For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there...
LAURA PREPON I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos.
LAURA PREPON But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
LAURA PREPON I'm the type of person that will do triple sessions in one day. I'll do Pilates, I'll do...
LAURA PREPON I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I...
LAURA PREPON They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome p...
LAURA PREPON My vintage Levi's are my favorite on the show, 'cause they really fit.
LAURA PREPON I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.
LAURA PREPON I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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