Quotes about lying
lying mean vices
It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual. Thomas Jefferson
lying mean people
Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear. Robert Herjavec
lying war president
When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie. Robert Higgs
lying past telling-the-truth
When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future. Rick Pitino
lying past problem
Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.
lying boston america
Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture, ... When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm. Rick Santorum
lying thinking eyebrows
His left eyebrow crept higher and higher as I told him the strange bits like the glowing letters and serpent staff. "Well, Sadie," Inspector Williams said. "You've got quite an imagination." "I'm not lying, Inspector. And I think your eyebrow is trying to escape." He tried to look at his own eyebrows, then scowled. Rick Riordan
lying men hair
I sat up in bed. "What did he say?" Tyson groaned, still half asleep. He was lying facedown on the couch, his feet so far over the edge they were in the bathroom. "The happy man said...bowling practice?" I hoped he was right, but then there was an urgent knock on the suite's interior door. Annabeth stuck her head in--her blonde hair in a rat's nest. "DISEMBOWLING practice?
lying character genes
Character, I am sure, lies in the genes. Taylor Caldwell
lying
It was so useful to lie with the truth. Tanith Lee
lying joy lasts
The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.
lying two stories
What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie. Tana French
lying moving careers
What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass. It is the core of our careers, the endgame of every move we make, and we pursue it with strategies painstakingly constructed of lies and concealment and every variation on deception.
lying sometimes
Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth. Tamora Pierce
lying hands differences
If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.
lying water understanding
Yes Headwoman Azaze. But I never lie to Rosethorn. She, um, discourages it." "Evvy and I have an understanding." She grabbed the teakettle and poured hot water into the mug. "She tells me the truth, and I don't hang her in the first well we come to. It's a solution that works tolerably well for both of us.
lying sleep down-and
Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery. Tad Williams
lying love-is sea
Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it. Sylvia Plath
lying grief gold
A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief.
lying heaven may
I am still raw. I say I may be back. You know what lies are for. Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet.
lying sea sick
Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry.
lying
What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.
lying deceit knows
You know what lies are for.
lying writing years
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the edge. We all are on the brink, and it takes a lot of nerve, a lot of energy, to teeter on the edge, looking over, looking down into the windy blackness and not being quite able to make out, through the yellow, stinking mist, just what lies below in the slime, in the oozing, vomit-streaked slime; and so I could go on, my thoughts, writing much, trying to find the core, the meaning for myself.
lying love-is shadow
Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
lying flower hands
I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free.
lying flower sleep
When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. I thought it would be easy, lying in the tup and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank into sleep under a surface gaudy as poppies.
lying father yoga
Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, "When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to the cloud of virtue." He sees God. He becomes God and helps others to become the same. This is all I have to preach. Doctrines have been expounded enough. There are books by the million. Oh, for an ounce of practice! Swami Vivekananda
lying play people
The rumors are lies. There were a lot of people said we're not going to play that we don't have a contract. ... We got it worked out got it hammered out. Ron Hargrave
lying years negativity
Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee an angry electorate four more years of gridlock. Ron Fournier
lying fate men
The daimonic refers to the power of nature rather than the superego, and is beyond good and evil. Nor is it man's 'recall to himself' as Heidegger and later Fromm have argued, for its source lies in those realms where the self is rooted in natural forces which go beyond the self and are felt as the grasp of fate upon us. The daimonic arises from the ground of being rather than the self as such. Rollo May
lying leaving
And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out. Stephen King
lying
You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.