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lying deceit literature
Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies. Charles Dickens
lying nurse cradle
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse. Charles Caleb Colton
lying pride ignorant
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
lying ignorance space
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what do we truly know, or what can we clearly affirm, of any one of those important things upon which all our reasonings must of necessity be built--time and space, life and death, matter and mind?
lying men shining
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
lying heart thinking
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.
lying ambition mean
I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.
lying sadness boys
The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.
lying views dying
Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!
clueless flow irony
Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless. David Denby
clueless thinking giving
I think we have to help the helpless. The clueless? I don't give a rat's ass about the clueless. Dennis Miller
clueless peaceful violence
Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value. Cher
clueless school boys
Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.
clueless white shirts
Where's my white collarless shirt from Fred Segal? It's my most capable-looking outfit!
clueless mean thinking
So okay, I don't want to be a traitor to my generation and all, but I don't get how guys dress today. I mean, come on, it looks like they just fell out of bed and put on some baggy pants and take their greasy hair-ew!-and cover it up with a backwards cap and like, we're expected to swoon? I don't think so.
clueless feet shoes
You see how picky I am about my shoes and they only go on my feet.
clueless leader world
A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless; one blind to the world of others will be clueless; those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided. Daniel Goleman
clueless algorithms break
Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break. Bruce Schneier
perfectly-good water thieves
Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat. Bill Johnson
perfectly-good bird mouths
Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him? Aldous Huxley
perfectly-good feminism alternatives
I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed. Annie Lennox
perfectly-good faces fronts
Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk." "It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face? David Eddings
perfectly-good upset touching
Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste of anger. You will notice a certain theme to these Emily Litella Moments. Behind them all is a touching faith that someone, somewhere is actually in charge of what's happening - a proposition I beg leave to doubt. Molly Ivins
perfectly-good meals ruined
He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals. Maggie Stiefvater
perfectly-good arseholes mouths
Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole. Neil Gaiman
perfectly-good rights racism
"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word family and using it as a code for censorship the same way "states' rights" was used to disguise racism in the mid-sixties. John Waters
perfectly-good may
I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it. Rihanna