Quotes about lying
lying gossip nine
Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth. Lucy Maud Montgomery
lying responsibility proud
Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome. Louis Sullivan
lying light long
I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound. Louise Bogan
lying vanity deceit
O vanity, mislead no more! Louisa May Alcott
lying love-you self-love
Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.
lying mean interesting
I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting. John Green
lying hands fiction
Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.
lying book soul
We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down because it threatens the overall quality and breadth of American literature.
lying justice rewards
Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God than complain of the straithandedness of Providence. And if we did but consider that there lies upon God no obligation of justice or gratitud to reward any of our duties, it would cure our murmurs (Gen. 32:10). John Flavel
lying struggle heart
It would much conduce to the settlement of your heart, to consider that by fretting and discontent you do yourself more injury than all your afflictions could do. Your own discontent is that which arms your troubles with a sting; you make your burden heavy by struggling under it. Did you but lie quietly under the hand of God, your condition would be much more easy than it is.
lying true-life want
If you want to be true to life, start lying about it John Fowles
lying moving past
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on from the reassuring repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Mythology distracts us everywhere. John F. Kennedy
lying heart eye
A lang, lang time ago…” MacPhee began, ignoring St.Vincent’s low groan, “there was a bonnie maid called Malvina. She was the betrothed of Oscar, the braw warrior who won her heart. Oscar bade his beloved tae wait for him while he went tae seek his fortune. But one black day Malvina received word that her lover had been killed in battle. He would lie forever in eternal rest in the faraway hills…lost in endless slumber…” “God, I envy him,” St. Vincent said feelingly, rubbing his own dark-circled eyes. Lisa Kleypas
lying reading rain
Some things are better when it’s raining. Like reading. Or sleeping. Or this.” “Lying in bed with me?
lying home ties
I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. Linus Torvalds
lying evil bugs
And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil lies.
lying fall reading
I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own. Linda Sue Park
lying mean america
Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president. Linda Tripp
lying believe hawaii
I truly believe the brightest days lie ahead for the Great State of Hawaii. Linda Lingle
lying men able
Life's too short to waste it on someone you can't trust. You should be able to depend on the man you love not to lie to you or cheat on you. If you have that as a base, you can work on the other stuff. Linda Howard
lying believe people
Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying. Linda Ellerbee
lying atheism greater
The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires. Lincoln Steffens
lying stupid years
That's stupid. If anyone sees themselves in ten years they're lying to themselves first. Lil Wayne
lying dont-lie ifs
Don't lie if you don't have to. Leo Szilard
lying mean deceit
We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do? Leo Tolstoy
lying believe math
Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.
lying teaching practice
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.
lying law way
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
lying deceit sin
How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!
lying love-you men
But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it will always be a lie. As though it were a strange sort of discovery that someone is in love! Just as if, as soon as he said that, something went snap-bang - he loves. Just as if, when he utters that word, something extraordinary is bound to happen, with signs and portents, and all the cannons firing at once. It seems to me, he went on, that people who solemnly utter those words, 'I love you,' either deceive themselves, or what's still worse, deceive others.
lying men littles
One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.
lying lines psychological
The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?
lying men facts
Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.