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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!
excuse pause putting reflection stand
We stand by the constitution. The pause for reflection is not an excuse for putting it aside, Angela Merkel
excuse game held nine periods shots whatever
We're not going to make any excuses. We outplayed them for two periods and held them to nine shots (in that stretch). Then for whatever reason, we let them back in the game in the third. Joe Mullen
excuse
We have to get it done, that's no excuse. Allen Iverson
excuse
We have no excuse for how we played. (Leonard) had to play in the rain, too. We just lacked the knockout punch.
excuse excuses loose maybe
We were anything but nervous. They are a loose group. Maybe they're too loose. And we were healthy. No excuses for our play tonight.
excuse throw
We're going to have every 'i' dotted and every 't' crossed. They're going to look for any excuse to throw out any signatures, so we think we're going to have more than enough.
excuse
Necessity is our quickest excuse. Benjamin Franklin
excuse great shooting
We're not a great free-throw shooting team. But there was no excuse today.
excuse guys
I know real cops. When they're paired up together, they get so close, you know? There's no excuse for it, but these guys do have a connection. They fight like cats and dogs, but when they get in a really messed-up situation, they're there for each other. Kenny Johnson
habit reconcile
Habit will reconcile us to everything but change
habit could-have-been has-beens
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be. Alan Paton
habit circumstances
Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. Bryan Adams
habit paint
Paint something every day. David Hockney
habit reacting interest
Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits. Bertrand Piccard
habit duty
The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear. Charles Baudelaire
habit resolve poor-richard
He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.
habit not-afraid
Fear is a habit; I am not afraid. Aung San Suu Kyi
habitat pageant evolve
Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere. Diane Ackerman