Quotes about lying
lying want telling-the-truth
I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over. Patrick Marber
lying trying world
What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.
lying mean feet
Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Patrick Henry
lying silence trying
I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told. Pat Conroy
lying silence form
... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
lying breaking-down humans
The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.
lying people ambitious
Anybody who is an ambitious politician would never ever aspire to a Vice Presidency. And yet, people find themselves in that position, and so, therein lies the rub. Julia Louis-Dreyfus
lying reading imagine
I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day. Julia Quinn
lying communication expression
Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of social and indistinct expression that we refer to as rhubarb. The very particular volume in which people tell each other their news seems to generate all by itself that acoustic chiaroscuro, a sounding murk, in which every communication seems to lose its edges, truth projects the shadow of a lie, and a statement seems to resemble its opposite. Joseph Roth
lying real firsts
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. Joseph Brodsky
lying men two
A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious man. One should define oneself first of all in those terms, and only then in terms of culture, race, creed.
lying advice trouble
Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you. Nelson Algren
lying flirting
It’s not lying, it’s flirting. Neil Strauss
lying eye men
I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to? Neil Young
lying people different
I don't see how you could get used to people screaming in your face, and anyone who says different is lying. Niall Horan
lying believe long
For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find. Niccolo Machiavelli
lying clinton
Hillary Clinton is lying again and again. Newt Gingrich
lying garden practice
Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look deeply at our consciousness is our greatest gift and our greatest need, for there lie the seeds of suffering and of love, the very roots of our being, of who we are. Mindfulness...is the guide and the practice by which we learn how to use the seeds of suffering to nourish the seeds of love. Nhat Hanh
lying quality consciousness
The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.
lying effort answers
An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing. Nelson Goodman
lying drinking winter
Why not include a provision that everybody shall, in good weather, hunt on his own land and catch fish in rivers that are public property and that Congress shall never restrain any inhabitant of America from eating and drinking, at seasonable times, or prevent his lying on his left side, in a long winter's night, or even on his back, when he is fatigued by lying on his right. Noah Webster
lying objectivity media
The media is uncritical, and their so-called the concept of objectivity translates into keeping everything within the Beltway. However, Iraq was quite different. Here, there were flat-out lies, and they sort of knew it. They were desperately trying to make connections between Saddam Hussein and 9/11. Noam Chomsky
lying hate people
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
lying opportunity thinking
... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not opportunity, but outcome. Without that you can't seriously talk about a democratic state... These concepts of the common good have a long life. They lie right at the core of classical liberalism, of Enlightenment thinking... Like Aristotle, [Adam] Smith understood that the common good will require substantial intervention to assure lasting prosperity of the poor by distribution of public revenues.
lying reality views
Pick the topic you like: the Middle East, international terrorism, Central America, whatever it is - the picture of the world that's presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality. The truth of the matter is buried under edifice after edifice of lies upon lies. It's all been a marvelous success from the point of view in deterring the threat of democracy, achieved under conditions of freedom, which is extremely interesting. It's not like a totalitarian state, where it's done by force. These achievements are under conditions of freedom.
lying mean media
The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences. They want to rub shoulders with the Secretary of State, all that kind of business. To do that, you've got to play the game, and playing the game means telling their lies, serving as their disinformation apparatus.
lying hours minutes
It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.
lying government causes
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
lying class training
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
lying writing house
As a Republican, I have listened to Democrats talk about the only two times we won the White House in like 200 years that we stole both elections. I had to sit through Fahrenheit 9/11 and a lady was sobbing violently behind me about the election being stolen by George Bush and I patted her half way through and said, 'it's alright, it's alright. It's all a lie anyway.' Democrats have been whining for 16 years, they're still writing articles about how Bush stole the election in 2004 and 2000. Joe Scarborough
lying rocks fire
Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world. Jodi Picoult
lying book once-upon-a-time
Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.
lying matter doe
don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.