Quotes about lying
lying dont-lie-to-me i-dont-lie
I can take any truth; just don't lie to me. Barbra Streisand
lying eye home
She wants to go home, but nobody's home. That's why she lies, broken inside. With no place to go, no place to go, to dry her eyes, broken inside... Avril Lavigne
lying heart broken
My heart is broken... I'm lying here My thoughts are choking On you my dear...
lying book sunshine
There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared. Arthur Conan Doyle
lying wife inspire
Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.
lying twilight heart
...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.
lying sea forever
2001 was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history ; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined. Arthur C. Clarke
lying knowing trying
Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.
lying ocean moving
The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would melt and flood all low-lying land; or the oceans would freeze and the whole world would be locked in eternal winter. Just a nudge in either direction would be enough.
lying future space
Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing commodity, the wilderness as the preservation of the world was proclaimed by Thoreau. In the new wilderness of the Solar System may lie the future preservation of mankind.
lying people hypocrisy
To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit. Anton Chekhov
lying covered-up people
Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.
lying sleep sea
The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now, and it will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.
lying essence graves
Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
lying years people
Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.
lying men ducks
Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.
lying boredom people
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
lying speak authority
Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.
lying writing stories
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
lying loss men
[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.
lying believe heart
I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious. Bela Karolyi
lying ignorance mean
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. Bela Lugosi
lying people would-be
Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth. bell hooks
lying acceptance reason
Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love
lying men telling-the-truth
When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.
lying exaggeration-is branches
Exaggeration is a branch of lying. Baltasar Gracian
lying form
To overvalue something is a form of lying.
lying looks today
Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning.
lying dont-lie whole-truth
Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.
lying liars believe
The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.
lying perfect quality
Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.
lying knowledge knowing
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
lying sleep awake-at-night
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.