Quotes about lying
lying support bricks
The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at. Mark Twain
lying cowboy railroads
A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.
lying law knowing
Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves.
lying men age
As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were.
lying spirituality praying
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.
lying men thinking
It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.
lying praying found
You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.
lying deceit belief
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
lying boys accomplishment
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
lying book age
When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.
lying said shows
Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.
lying inspiration doe
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
lying humorous justice
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
lying believe sleep
In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of aerial navigation-and along with that belief is the hope that that genius will reveal his miracle before they die, and likewise a dread that he will poke off somewhere and die himself before he finds out that he has such a wonder lying dormant in his brain. We all know the air can be navigated-therefore, hurry up your sails and bladders-satisfy us-let us have peace.
lying half world
A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.
lying half truth-is
A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
lying acting actors
(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying. Leonardo DiCaprio
lying men animal
Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie. Leonardo da Vinci
lying eye dark
The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.
lying noble truth-is
To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.
lying fire sophistry
Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.
lying godly speaking-well
The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.
lying math inquiry
The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can be a science unless it pursues its path through mathematical exposition and demonstration.
lying mean light
The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
lying passion men
Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul. Oscar Wilde
lying healthy absence
The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
lying love-you heart
To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
lying mind balance
Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind. Paul Rand
lying hands realizing
We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands. Paul Robeson
lying demand great-power
We ask for nothing that is not right, and herein lies the great power of our demand.
lying differences lawyer
The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk. Patrick Murray
lying fall doctors
Go and see whether the Doctor is about,’ said Jack, ‘and if he is, ask him to look in, when he has a moment.’ Which he is in the fish-market, turning over some old-fashioned lobsters. No. I tell a lie. That is him, falling down the companion-way and cursing in foreign. Patrick O'Brian
lying mean cake
They will not be pleased. But they know we must catch the monsoon with a well-found ship; and they know they are in the Navy--they have chosen their cake, and must lie on it.' You mean, they cannot have their bed and eat it.' No, no, it is not quite that either. I mean--I wish you would not confuse my mind, Stephen.