Quotes about lying
lying men helping
It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood. Isaac Bashevis Singer
lying men want
Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.
lying believe thinking
I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea that the Universe is a physical or chemical accident, a result of blind evolution. Even though I learned to recognize the lies, the clichés and the idolatries of the human mind, I still cling to some truths which I think all of us might accept some day.
lying white black
Enough white lies can scorch the earth black. Isaac Marion
lying succeed ashamed
Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. Isaac Asimov
lying reputation telling-the-truth
Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.
lying used
The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.
lying men dignity
A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man. Immanuel Kant
lying believe men
By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.
lying perfection
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
lying evil
But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.
lying february i-can
It's February the 22ndAnd I can't tell a lie. Irving Berlin
lying love-you ocean
How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie. How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?
lying knowing choices
Therefore, be honest with yourself as to why you are choosing to do a particular thing. Then, do it gladly, knowing that you are always getting to do what you want. The statement "I have no choice" is a lie. You can choose. You simply do not prefer the alternatives available to you, for whatever reason. So you select the outcome that you most prefer. Neale Donald Walsch
lying accepted
Lying about things large and small has become so accepted by so many that they even lie about lying.
lying heart son
Some people say that our salvation lies with God, or with God's Son, yet is not the human heart the place where such Divinity is found? Therefore open your heart, and open TO your heart, that you may hear its call to reflect, to be meek, and to be responsible.
lying mean important
Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count. Nate Berkus
lying chaos unbearable-lightness-of-being
On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth. Milan Kundera
lying worry anxiety
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
lying people ability
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
lying mean doe
What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.
lying love-is use
If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!
lying bed former-life
He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.
lying mean eye
For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.
lying book past
And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.
lying sadness elude-us
There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. In the course of a single second, our senses of sight, of hearing, of smell, register (knowingly or not) a swarm of events and a parade of sensations and ideas passes through our head. Each instant represents a little universe, irrevocably forgotten in the next instant.
lying self-confidence differences
The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.
lying want madmen
I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself
lying secret littles
It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life -- and herein lies its secret -- takes place in the immediate proximity of that border, even in direct contact with it; it is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch.
lying interesting half
Interesting." Raistlin coughed the word. Tanis glanced at him sharply. "What is interesting?" "I've never heard you lie before, Half-Elf," Raistlin said softly. " I find it...quite...fascinating. Margaret Weis
lying doctors genius
Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient Marcel Proust
lying heart doe
The heart does not lie.
lying men self
Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.