Quotes about lying
lying ego identity
If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities will shift to the group. It might look as if they are losing their personal egos, but the ego simply shifts to the group. Eckhart Tolle
lying stuff littles
I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat Holly Hunter
lying mean law
The most effective means of upholding the law is not the State policeman or the marshals or the National Guard. It is you. It lies in your courage to accept those laws with which you disagree as well as those with which you agree. John F. Kennedy
lying matter propaganda
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
lying deceit would-be
Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies. Jonathan Mayhew
lying people telling-the-truth
Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth. Jonathan Maberry
lying mean giving
To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth. Jonathan Frid
lying goal joy
We can call this "the progress principle": Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them. Shakespeare captured it perfectly: "Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing." Jonathan Haidt
lying writing singing
The different part of writing and singing worship lies in the identity and truth of God's Word and true intention for us as His followers on this Earth. Jonathan Cain
lying hate people
Lying is too much trouble. You have to make sure to taste each word before letting it off your tongue. I hate that. It's hard enough making people understand without lying. Jonathan Carroll
lying influence creation
Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I'll be allowing something immediate influence of God on creation still? Jonathan Edwards
lying heart hypocrisy
If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
lying alive body
The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.
lying light essence
But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole of religion.
lying doors brain
It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the brain and said, lie down and masturbate one more time. Jonathan Ames
lying teaching ideas
The American People are witnessing the greatest lie that is cleverly orchestrated by President Obama and his whole administration. President Obama feeds people poison, giving them the idea that they are entitled to take from the wealthier who have lived and worked in a democracy that understands that capitalism is the only truth that keeps a nation healthy ... [Obama uses] a socialistic, Marxist teaching, and with it, he rapes this nation... Jon Voight
lying wells
A lie told well is just as good as the truth. Jonah Lehrer
lying knows
As we all know, the most effective lies are the ones sprinkled with the most actual truths. Jonah Goldberg
lying men politics
Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.
lying news satire
To me, that's where a lot of satire lies. News used to hold itself to a higher plane and slowly it has dissolved into, well, me. Jon Stewart
lying sound telling-the-truth
Please explain to me why John Kerry sounds more dickish telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying. How is that possible?
lying mean self
Because the meaning of a story does not lie on its surface, visible and self-defining, does not mean that meaning does not exist. Indeed, the ambiguity of meaning, its inner private quality, may well be part of the writer's vision. Joyce Carol Oates
lying language cases
Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie?
lying long stories
When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.
lying thinking deception
We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie. Katha Pollitt
lying reality should-have
She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on. Kate Atkinson
lying believe half
You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.
lying world way
Really, according to the shrinks, I am angry at everyone ever. Especially them. I am all anger and resentment all the time. Not one of them has ever suggested that maybe I lie because the world is better the way I tell it. Justine Larbalestier
lying hate player
I can give you my personal opinion: love the music, hate the business. It's a screwball business, and there are a lot of players who will straight-up lie to you. Justin Timberlake
lying persons relaxed
I would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that's a lie! Julie Bowen
lying simple teens
The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst. Julie Burchill
lying heart technology
What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It is information, words, instructions... If you want to understand life, don't think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology. Richard Dawkins
lying doctors patient
Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.