Quotes about lying
lying men lying-men
Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all. Patrick Ness
lying smell clothes
I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak...
lying believe world
I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?
lying men want
Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
lying people needs
Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.
lying believe knowing
Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
lying reading emotional
Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die. Patrick Rothfuss
lying
The best lies about me are the ones I told.
lying believe skills
I believe a writer's most important skill lies in being able to see things from different perspectives.
lying believe giving
...hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don't. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.
lying past men
Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before I start. I've told stories in the past, painted pictures with words, told hard lies and harder truths. Once, I sang colors to a blind man. Seven hours I played, but at the end he said he saw them, green and red and gold. That, I think, was easier than this. Trying to make you understand her with nothing more than words. You have never seen her, never heard her voice. You cannot know.
lying knowing who-we-are
True strength lies in our knowing, individually, what we are, who we are, and what we want. Paget Brewster
lying inability
I just have an inability to lie. Paloma Faith
lying men young
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young. Lillian Hellman
lying thinking reason
The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him. Lester Maddox
lying reality wish
The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion. Leon Trotsky
lying compare i-can
Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
lying believe heart
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it. Learned Hand
lying heart men
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias.
lying acting should
I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying? Laurence Olivier
lying acting convincing
What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
lying sunny spots
With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks. Leigh Hunt
lying mean evil
When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden is evils.
lying leaving growing
All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie. She was learning to love. Lauren Oliver
lying liars telling-the-truth
Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?
lying disease firsts
They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie.
lying believe people
Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.
lying choices fiction
They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t chosen at all. But maybe happiness isn’t in the choosing. Maybe it’s in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.
lying dark next
That's my favorite thing about him. I like to lie next to him when it's late, dark, and so quiet I can hear my own heartbeat. It's times like that when I'm sure that I'm in love.
lying quiet graves
Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie
lying years delirium
Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.
lying disease might
They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.
lying years forever
They say that the cure for love will make me happy and safe forever. And I’ve always believed them. Until now. Now everything has changed. Now, I’d rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie