Quotes about lying
lying believe fate
Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe that most people have some degree of talent for something--forms, colors, words, sounds. Talent lies around in us like kindling waiting for a match, but some people, just as gifted as others, are less lucky. Fate never drops a match on them. The times are wrong, or their health is poor, or their energy low, or their obligations too many. Something. Wallace Stegner
lying reading writing
The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided. Samuel Richardson
lying differences littles
There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether they stand, sit or lie. Samuel Beckett
lying golf lockers
The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room. Sammy Cahn
lying analogies dishonesty
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. Samuel Butler
lying errors soul
Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
lying moving self
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.
lying mind ease
Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration. Samuel Lover
lying ballads
For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.
lying heart bad-ass
Suppose you came across a woman lying on the street with an elephant sitting on her chest. You notice she is short of breath. Shortness of breath can be a symptom of heart problems. In her case, the much more likely cause is the elephant on her chest. For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences. That is the elephant. Until the playing field has veen leveled and lingering stereotypes are gone, you can't even ask the question. Sally Ride
lying kids space
Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration.
lying roots axes
Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence. Salman Rushdie
lying vision literature
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
lying errors work-out
Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.
lying men water
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed in this hidden truth the way other men believed in God or love, believed that truth was in fact always hidden, that the apparent, the overt, was invariably a kind of lie.
lying shopping clothes
I could lie and pretend that I hunt and camp, but that wouldn't be me. Clothes? Shopping? That's stuff I like! Ryan Seacrest
lying violence germs
The germ of creation lies in violence. Rudolfo Anaya
lying roots world
That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things. Rudolf Steiner
lying order roots
The desire for a nonviolent and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation and revolution. Undoubtedly, it seems the highest order of contradiction that, in order to achieve nonviolence, we must first break with it in overcoming its root causes. Therein lies our only hope. Ward Churchill
lying intuition important
My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket. W. P. Kinsella
lying mind phrases
You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind. W. S. Gilbert
lying indulge-in anxiety
When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.
lying unrequited-love soul
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!
lying cells exaggeration-is
There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research. Virginia Foxx
lying people bed
Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it. Virginia Euwer Wolff
lying night dust
Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. W. H. Auden
lying rising done
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.
lying earth guests
Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.
lying littles noses
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
lying vegas bed
Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead.
lying sadness eye
Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye.
lying thinking speak
All well bred persons lie – Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think… William Congreve
lying deceit naked
No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.