Ron Ziegler Quotes

You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.

Give the enemy an inch, he'll take a yard.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.

They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie.

I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

Whatever limits us we call fate.

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.

That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.

And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.

a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.

Do not do that again," he said stiffly. "Don't kiss me back then," I retorted. He stared at me for what seemed like forever. "I don't give 'Zen lessons' to hear myself talk. I don't give them because you're another student. I'm doing this to teach you control." "You're doing a great job," I said bitterly.

I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.

Where are we going?” Annabelle asked, resisting his hold on her wrist. “To the house. If they’re not willing to be witnesses, then it seems I’ll have to debauch you in front of someone else.

The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

It was a nice bit of blackmail that kept him off my back, but he refused to take the message that I wasn’t going to work for him. ’Course, that might be my fault…since I seemed unable to say no when he waved enough money at me.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.

Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!

Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your pretty looks, pet. Come here. She did not move. He ground out his cigarette on the window-ledge and laughed. Come here, he said again, softly. So she went.

I’m taking off my shoes.’’ ‘‘Fine. Shoes off.’’ ‘‘And my pants.’’ ‘‘Don’t push it, Claire.

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.

Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.

If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.