Fooling Quotes

As we begin to leave Afghanistan, are we fooling ourselves about what we are leaving behind or what we have promised the people of Afghanistan? Especially the women and girls?

Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now. I said a lot of stuff fooling around back then, and I saw it do a lot of harm.

L. A. is crazy. The women all look the same now. That thing with the cheeks. Like Madonna. Who do they think they're fooling? It doesn't make them look young. You end up looking like a freak.

The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him.

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings.

A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.