Quotes about lying
lying safe way
Take one, and you cannot take the other," she said. "But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies? Neil Gaiman
lying growing may
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal Nassim Nicholas Taleb
lying people tears
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears
lying book world
Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there. Myrtle Reed
lying apology differences
Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference. Mort Sahl
lying coping-mechanisms survival
Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique. Monica Raymund
lying lied
I was brought up with lies all the time... that's how you got along... I have lied my entire life... Monica Lewinsky
lying people looks
If the angle you're going at is there's some kind of quid pro quo - there isn't. Business is business, and people are allowed to make money. Looks can be deceiving, because there's no quid pro quo here. Mike Miller
lying men he-man
Success will smile at the man who refuses to lie down at the corridor of failure. Mike Murdock
lying actors pretending
Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced. Mike Mills
lying merit telling-the-truth
Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it. Mignon McLaughlin
lying entrepreneur fields
Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.
lying men self
Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing it self, but the Degree. John Wilmot
lying stealing cheat
Never lie, never cheat, never steal. John Wooden
lying hard-work might
There is no substitute for hard work. If you're looking for the easy way, if you're looking for the trick, you might get by for a while, but you will not be developing the talents that lie within you. There is simply no substitute for work.
lying long lizards
The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely. Elizabeth Smart
lying people telling-the-truth
People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying. Eric Idle
lying power government
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. Eric Hoffer
lying people silence
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie. Paulo Freire
lying consciousness situation
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them';
lying journey honor
The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways. Philip Sidney
lying believe people
There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies. Philip Roth
lying character density
The thought of the novelist lies not in the remarks of his characters or even in their introspection but in the plight he has invented for his characters, in the juxtaposition of those characters and in the lifelike ramifications of the ensemble they make — their density, their substantiality, their lived existence actualized in all its nuanced particulars, is in fact his thought metabolized.
lying real people
It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.
lying writing thinking
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I read the two sentences over and turn them both around. Then I lie down on my sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning.
lying flower men
Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts. Philip James Bailey
lying miracle despair
[The masses] ... must turn their hopes toward a miracle. In the depths of their despair reason cannot be believed, truth must be false, and lies must be truth. "Higher bread prices," "lower bread prices," "unchanged bread prices" have all failed. The only hope lies in a kind of bread price which is none of these, which nobody has ever seen before, and which belies the evidence of one's reason. Peter Drucker
lying stupid machines
The strength of the computer lies in its being a logic machine. It does precisely what it is programed to do. This makes it fast and precise. It also makes it a total moron; for logic is essentially stupid.
lying golf years
I may know I am better than an 18, but the computer absorbs my scores year after year and continues to tell me that is what I am. Therein lies the tragedy of golf. We know what we should be, but there is always some number telling us what it is... Peter Andrews
lying may evening
He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it's almost evening. Peter Benchley
lying years forever
And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not. Penelope Lively
lying nerd library
It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.
lying two order
If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order. Penn Jillette