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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!
thought-provoking house ceilings
When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it? Chinua Achebe
thought-provoking giving headache
Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!
thought-provoking
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
thought-provoking looks levels
Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level Brad Bird
thought-provoking youth wonderful
It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything. Arthur C. Clarke
thought-provoking lovers-meeting power-of-words
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain. William Shakespeare
thought-provoking worry church
We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state. Abraham Joshua Heschel
thought-provoking young antiquity
To learn is to be young, however old. Aeschylus
thought-provoking religion literature
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C. S. Lewis
infinite
The Infinite is only a manner of speaking. Carl Friedrich Gauss
infinitely worst
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity. George William Russell
infinite
The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal. Blaise Pascal
infinite limit might open possibilities time
The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain. Tom Stoppard
infinite modern mathematics
Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained. Arthur Cayley
infinite ends
The end comes when the infinites arrive. David Bowie
infinitely irritation lacking subtle
Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble. Craig Brown
infinitely studied wisdom
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. Hippolyte Taine
infinitely production sort stable states technology united war whatever
All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance. Gianni Agnelli