Quotes about lying
lying book thinking
The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather - not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought). It will therefore only be in language that the limit can be set, and what lies on the other side of the limit will simply be nonsense. Ludwig Wittgenstein
lying blood facts
Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood. Lu Xun
lying eye passion
The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions. Luc de Clapiers
lying hatred dishonesty
Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
lying quality mystery
Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness. Louis Pasteur
lying tenacity
My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
lying ambition reality
We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness, where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience, all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality. Longchenpa
lying people way
The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie. Lord Byron
lying women wells
Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.
lying loss past
Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.
lying character evil
Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character. Lord Acton
lying waiting corners
I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up. I do nothing in the meantime. Jim Rogers
lying waiting investing
One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do. I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up. I wait for a situation that is like the proverbial shooting fish in a barrel.
lying secret battle
The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses. John Christopher
lying poetry way
Poetry lies its way to the truth. John Ciardi
lying people stuff
...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that. John Connolly
lying sleep men
I long for scenes where man has never trod; A place where woman never smil'd or wept; There to abide with my creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept: Untroubling and untroubled where I lie; The grass below--above the vaulted sky. John Clare
lying writing soul
Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.
lying talking people
When people quote sketches to me, half the time I don't know what they're talking about so I have to sort of go, aha, yes, oh yep, I remember that and lie my way out of it. John Cleese
lying community world
In and through community lies the salvation of the world. M. Scott Peck
lying grace holiness
The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.
lying real insecurity
The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.
lying dark space
But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers. Lurlene McDaniel
lying moments knows
Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it you're not even aware, only afterwards do you know you were happy. Luise Rainer
lying people desire
Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
lying night color
The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of the night, to have returned to the world of apples, the orchards of Heaven. Perhaps I should take my problems to a shrink, or perhaps I should enjoy the apples that I have, streaked with color like the evening sky. John Cheever
lying hands feelings
Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked. . .The telling of lies is a sort of sleight of hand that displays our deepest feelings about life.
lying opportunity use
The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things. John Boehner
lying party believe
He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies. John Arbuthnot
lying party political
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
lying secret way
The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie. Orson Scott Card
lying order lakes
What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.
lying stupid should-have
Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.