Top 136 Sham Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
It is in our interest to crush ISIS, terrorist groups like the al-Nusra front and Ahrar ash-Sham, and Iran's puppet Assad.
Voting really doesn't mean anything. I wish I could say something different, but I think it's kind of a sham.
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. — © William Makepeace Thackeray
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
Gays (homosexuals) usually bring up the argument about all the straight couples living in 'sham' marriages, but I see no point in dragging the Clintons into this
I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe
This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.
It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.
Award functions are a big sham. It's a money-making television programme.
[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.
Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.
One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
For many, the loan modification process has been a giant sham.
So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.
A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in history, and judgement upon the pious. An authentic prophet can be a radical critic of spurious piety, of sham spirituality.
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other. — © John Dewey
Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule.
At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.
Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?
If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps and material good.
All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.
If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people
Feminism without femininity is a sham.
Even the human race can't claim to be natural anymore. We are fake, dying things. How fitting that I would end up in this sham of a marriage.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
I never liked going to school and would sham and play football. I played in the centre forward position. If ever given a choice, I would love to represent Barcelona.
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.
Religion is commodified; the educational system is a sham; and yet,[Bob] Dylan wonders, everyone has to stand naked sometime.
A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.
Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?
To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.
I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots. — © Mary Augusta Ward
I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.
Neither an almost $35 million Mueller investigation, ending in an exonerating report, nor a sham impeachment effort could deter Trump from moving forward with the business of the American people.
It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.
Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths of mankind either don't know it or think it's a sham, because it isn't what their book or their prophet says, and it isn't cozy or manipulable enough.
It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery
Sham liberty will be proclaimed everywhere.
As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.
Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.
The government shutdown, we all know that's a sham. I mean, are they really going to just go to the entire Army and Navy and say, 'You're fired.'
Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.
And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.
The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly independent parties to participate. Sham democracy should be exposed for what it truly is.
To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.
The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.
Bearing sham and scoffing rude, in my place condemned He stood - Sealed my pardon with His blood: Hallelujah, what a Savior! — © Philip Bliss
Bearing sham and scoffing rude, in my place condemned He stood - Sealed my pardon with His blood: Hallelujah, what a Savior!
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.
The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.
I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.
Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just a bit of a sham.
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