Quotes about lying
lying doubt mind
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received; nothing is henceforward so odious as opposition, so insolent as doubt, or so dangerous as novelty. Samuel Johnson
lying grief flower
In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.
lying italian desire
An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.
lying eye deception
Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
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 men world
A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never be anything but a failure in the world’s estimation, and may do as he pleases. The poet is a man on the sidelines of life, sidelined for life. He belongs to the aristocracy of the outcast, the lowest of the low, below the salt of the earth. A member of the most ancient regime in the world. One that cannot, it seems, be overthrown. Walter Martin
lying willing
Are we willing to do for the truth what others are willing to do for a lie?
lying mean dramatic-situations
We're all impostors to ourselves. By that I mean that we know instinctively, intimately, the difference between whom we are inside and who we appear to be to others. Most of the time - when we aren't flat lying about something or playing a particularly stylized role in some heightened dramatic situation - this difference between the internal and the external is modest and manageable. Walter Kirn
lying mean community
There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies. Walter Lippmann
lying feet arms
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms. Voltaire
lying play packs
History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
lying men eulogy
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
lying agree
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...
lying kitchen honest
You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen. William Stafford
lying stories crime
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie. William Landay
lying men voice
Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the populace - or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose "soul is marching on," though his "body lies mouldering in the grave," or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who "gave himself for the world," - in defence of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man! William Lloyd Garrison
lying boredom perception
Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited. William Least Heat-Moon
lying eye men
What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the mind, a place he has never dreamed of? Maybe it's like the force in spores lying quietly under asphalt until the day they push a soft, bulbous mushroom head right through the pavement. There's nothing you can do to stop it.
lying flower race
The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds. William C. Bryant
lying eye dark
Stand here by my side and turn, I pray, On the lake below thy gentle eyes; The clouds hang over it, heavy and gray, And dark and silent the water lies; And out of that frozen mist the snow In wavering flakes begins to flow; Flake after flake, They sink in the dark and silent lake.
lying spring loss
Earth in beauty dressed Awaits returning spring. All true love must die, Alter at the best Into some lesser thing. Prove that I lie. William Butler Yeats
lying night done
All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
lying eye saving
Come, fix upon me that accusing eye. I thirst for accusation. All that was sung. All that was said in Ireland is a lie Breed out of the contagion of the throng, Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.
lying flower roots
Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
lying drinking home
A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
lying heart gone
Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
lying eye atheism
For how can you compete Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbour's eyes?