Quotes about lying
lying self justice
...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the box. We can only live in terms of the definition, like the prisoner in the cage in which he cannot lie or stand or sit, hung up in justice to be viewed by the populace. Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selfness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made? Robert Penn Warren
lying blessed eye
But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.
lying eyelashes laughing
I don't lie to you," Alan said. "I lie WITH you." Sin stopped looking up at him from under her eyelashes and burst out laughing. Alan went red. "So I've just realized how that come out. Uh. Sarah Rees Brennan
lying fall long
Ready?" Jaime echoed. "Yes, yes, I am ready. I am ready to drink a lot of liquids and lie on the sofa moaning faintly all day long. That is what I am ready for. I cannot engage in physical activity of any sort or my head will fall right off. Is that what you want Nick? Because if so, I find that hurtful.
lying perfection delight
The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds. Wallace Stevens
lying imagination achievement
The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.
lying liars swear
Liars are always most disposed to swear. Vittorio Alfieri
lying way hours
The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way. Virgil
lying night views
The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.
lying character creative
A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. Willa Cather
lying moon blue
The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.
lying character writing
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
lying people able
Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you. Will Smith
lying legs doe
Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie! Warren Ellis
lying shadow-of-death one-day
It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass one day through the valley of the shadow of death, and “que la fin de la vie humaine, ce sont des larmes ou des cheveux blancs.” What lies beyond this is a great mystery that only God knows, but He has revealed absolutely through His word that there is a resurrection of the dead. Vincent Van Gogh
lying reality anomalies
How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.
lying manipulation deceit
In brainwashing communism deceit lies manipulation marxism socialism truth A lie told often enough becomes the truth. Vladimir Lenin
lying class names
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.
lying judging racism
Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. Wayne Dyer
lying sleep days-gone-by
We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie. Walter de La Mare
lying eye darkness
When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.
lying men chinese
After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...
lying idle greater
The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend. Walter Bagehot
lying blow complacency
These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed. Walter Benjamin
lying vests dresses
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
lying lips may
Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them ... Virginia Woolf
lying reality men
Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees ... one's happiness, one's reality?
lying eye differences
Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes. Any help we can give you must be different from that you can give yourselves, and perhaps the value of that help may lie in the fact of that difference.
lying semblance
Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?
lying eye angel
I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame- And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And 'twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady. William Blake
lying believe eye
We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.
lying imagination expectations
I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible. Wendy Wasserstein
lying reality men
We should remember that science exists only because there are people, and its concepts exist only in the minds of men. Behind these concepts lies the reality which is being revealed to us, but only by the grace of God. Wernher von Braun