Quotes about lying
lying technology genius
THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning. John Kenneth Galbraith
lying college use
We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or if you're a college professor, the virtue lies in leisure and the use you make of your leisure time.
lying men opening-up
Probably the greatest single obstacle to the progress and happiness of the American people lies in the willingness of so many men to invest their time and money in multiplying competitive industries instead of opening up new fields, and putting their money into lines of industry and development that are needed. John D. Rockefeller
lying people nine
There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do. John Cusack
lying thinking poet
I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.
lying beer over-you
I will be here and be around, watching over you. You can bet on that. I'll find a way to get some peanuts and take some beer and tell some lies. John Chaney
lying integrity heart
This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the notes you want on the technical data, anything you forget you can look up again, but this must be engraved on your hearts in letters of fire. There is nothing, nothing, nothing, more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool metal. That’s all. Lois McMaster Bujold
lying men iron
If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.
lying men law
Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.
lying thinking doctors
I think it's a really sad situation when I have to lie to my doctor about what I need a medication for. Liz Miller
lying believe persevere
I believe in persevering. If you persevere, success lies ahead of you. Liu Yang
lying deceit vulnerable
Deceit and lying make me feel vulnerable. Lisa Vidal
lying believe thinking
I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable. Lynn Barber
lying night thinking
I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said. Lyn Nofziger
lying space important
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny or for the service of freedom Lyndon B. Johnson
lying would-be bits
I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness. Lucian Freud
lying years forgiving
Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive? Louise Penny
lying grass lying-down
This soft grass suggests 'softness' to me, but also at the same time 'lying-down-ness'. Louise Rennison
lying reality people
Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people. Louis C. K.
lying government law
At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. Louis D. Brandeis
lying progress path
In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.
lying evil coffins
Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime. Lord Byron
lying maids deceit
Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!
lying agony
I see before me the gladiator lie.
lying heartless headless
By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.
lying garden way
In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain, but they have not entered this domain themselves. By their very nature they are more interested in the way in which the gate is opened than in the garden lying behind it. M. C. Escher
lying eye hands
Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.
lying years pieces
In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces. M. F. K. Fisher
lying coaching matter
It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie. Lou Holtz
lying night eggs
The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night. Loren Eiseley
lying vanity people
There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly. Lord Chesterfield
lying mean vanity
I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.
lying long may
It may be objected, that I am now recommending dissimulation to you; I both own and justify it. It has been long said: Qui nescitdissimular nescit regnare: I go still farther, and say, that without some dissimulation, no business can be carried on at all.