Quotes about lying
lying optimistic phrases
A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself. Storm Jameson
lying thinking mind
I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind ...
lying writing people
all writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth ...
lying government justice
It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality. Stewart Udall
lying may bed
If I lie down on my bed I must be here, But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere. Stevie Smith
lying believe white
If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic.
lying poet
Poets tell many lies. Solon
lying half truth-is
A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
lying past atrocities
scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past. Steve Irwin
lying animal land
Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.
lying people answers
Clearly Democrats are not united in what is the critique of what we're doing there and what is the answer to what we do next. The difficulty of coming to a unified position is that for a lot of people who voted for it, they have to decide whether they can admit that they were misled. Steve Elmendorf
lying murder-victims ideas
The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being. Steve Earle
lying moving eye
You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes. Stephen Spender
lying important tiny
Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size. Stephen Sondheim
lying promise moments
The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you. Molly Ringwald
lying opportunity waiting
Opportunities are made, they do not just lie around waiting for someone to grab them. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
lying military public-opinion
They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
lying military baghdad
The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!
lying integrity heart
Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Saddam Hussein will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great honour and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts.
lying military coward
These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying.
lying military als
With respect to the situation in Al-Faw, the British told big lies. In Al-Faw, our forces' positions remained in place.
lying mad reason
I'm not mad at anybody. I'm not being forced out. It is what it is. I have no reason to lie. Mike Hargrove
lying tinder tomorrow
It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow. Pearl S. Buck
lying book writing
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
lying thinking compassion
I no longer become angry. I not only do not say angry words, I do not even think angry thoughts! If someone does an unkind thing to me I feel only compassion instead of resentment. Even upon those who cause suffering I look with deep compassion, knowing the harvest of sorrow that lies in store for them. If there were those who hated me, I would love them in return, knowing that hatred can only be overcome by love, and knowing that there is good in all human beings which can be reached by a loving approach. Peace Pilgrim
lying world rotting
We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead. Philip Gibbs
lying inspiration practice
The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours. Philip Gilbert Hamerton
lying blue yield
The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth. Peter Straub
lying character self
To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational conveniences. What remains when the conscious and functioning self has been erased is mankind's fundamental condition – irrational, violent, guilt-wracked, despairing, and mad.
lying belief delusional
If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth. Peter Thiel
lying movement puppets
Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom. Peter L. Berger
lying sight horizon
...do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which entice us to proceed further and further in the penetration of what appears at first sight only in vague outline? Peter Kropotkin
lying simple progress
True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and of free federation from the simple to the compound, in lieu of the present hierarchy from the centre to the periphery.