Quotes about lying
lying character heart
The characters of man's heart, blotted and confounded as they are with dissembling, lying, counterfeiting, and erroneous doctrines, are legible only to him that searcheth hearts. Thomas Hobbes
lying believe heart
A private man has always the liberty (because thought is free) to believe or not believe in his heart those acts that have been given out for miracles, according as he shall see what benefits can accrue by men's belief, to those that pretend, or countenance them, and thereby conjecture whether they be miracles or lies.
lying years apples
I am confident our best years lie ahead of us and that together we will continue to make Apple the magical place that it is. Tim Cook
lying drunk drink
Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise. Thomas Love Peacock
lying ocean now-and-then
A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one. Thomas Jefferson
lying enemy suffering
If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?
lying election remnants
Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved. Thomas Goodwin
lying sleep lions
Someday the lion is going to lie down with the lamb, but the lamb isn't going to get much sleep. Woody Allen
lying ideas choices
If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts lie in comedy and so comedy comes fairly easy to me and I occasionally have an idea for a very serious piece and I do it, but the ideas don't come that readily to me.
lying boys views
This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I always have, since I was a little boy. It hasn't gotten worse with age or anything. I do feel that it's a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience, and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself.
lying reality people
It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying to themselves than others. If you face reality too much, it kills you.... you've got to find an answer to the question: Why go on?
lying military criticism
I don't take criticism lying down. William Westmoreland
lying eye solitude
For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude William Wordsworth
lying book age
..........books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. These hoards of truth you can unlock at will:
lying rain fall
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless...
lying flower heart
The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, to me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
lying home clouds
But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.
lying flower garden
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
lying believe men
To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself." William Shenstone
lying philosophical trying
I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I go berserk just forcing myself not to go berserk, just trying to see truth in the lie, to see it in full context, and in a dimension in which it has got to be more than just a lie, possibly the profoundest kind of truth. William Saroyan
lying needs good-lies
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable. William McIlvanney
lying canvas imagine
Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas. William Merritt Chase
lying humble reality
I stake the future on the few humble and hearty lovers who seek God passionately in the marvelous, messy world of redeemed and related realities that lie in front of our noses. William McNamara
lying missing allegations
I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time - never. These allegations are false. William J. Clinton
lying stupid humorous
Nearly everyone will lie to you given the right circumstances.
lying should-have people
Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign.
lying special different
Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. William James
lying order unseen
In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.
lying men differences
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.
lying opportunity thinking
Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.
lying misunderstood statistics
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
lying believe belief
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
lying giving generosity
Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give. William Gilmore Simms