Quotes about lying
lying truth-is sweetest
The bitterest truth is better than the sweetest lie. Michael Stuhlbarg
lying government holy-grail
Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. Michael Palin
lying dirty practice
Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places. Michael Parenti
lying book deceit
You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out of a loch and shot full of morphine, full of corridors, lies, loose vegetation, pockets of stones. Michael Ondaatje
lying sri-lanka facts
In Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts.
lying fate should-have
Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power. Neal Shusterman
lying warrior differences
Cowards hide [...] but warriors lie and wait [...] the only difference is whether you're motivated by fear or purpose.
lying heartfelt darkness
So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?
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 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.
lying effort obscurity
What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown.
lying rely-upon done
Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.
lying believe ends
Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."
lying love-is suffering
How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in a world where love is provoked by a lie and consists solely in the need of having our sufferings appeased by whatever being has made us suffer?
lying real might
How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?
lying reality knowing
But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.