Quotes about lying
lying reality oxford
Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end. Philip Pullman
lying writing silence
For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence
lying oxford two
...when all the openings were closed, then the worlds would all be restored to their proper relations with one another, Lyra’s Oxford and Will’s would lie over each other again, like transparent images on two sheets of film being moved closer and closer until they merged–although they would never truly touch.
lying scholar
Do not lie to the Scholar.
lying orchids toxic-waste
Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath. Rachel Cusk
lying order glare
Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on. Rachel Cohn
lying trying rest-of-your-life
It's a total lie to say there's only one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. If you're lucky - and if you try really hard - there will always be more than one.
lying answers pits
The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies. -Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
lying real water
The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. Rachel Carson
lying struggle down-and
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future. Queen Elizabeth II
lying talking would-be
I wouldn't abandon nobody. I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody. Puff Daddy
lying honest being-honest
I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.
lying thinking night
All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things. Julian Barnes
lying intelligent waiting
Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.' Terence McKenna
lying believe historical
This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.
lying exercise men
The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present cultural crisis on the surface of the planet is caused by the fact that this is not a fitting theater for the exercise of imagination. It wrecks the planet. The planet has its own Eco-systemic dynamics, which are not the dynamics of imagination.
lying garden heaven
LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.
lying eye self
So the self under the eye lies, Attendant and withdrawn. Ted Hughes
lying men spirit
The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies. Tecumseh
lying book heaven
Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books. Randolph Bourne
lying love-you love-is
I'm not sure why we romanticize 'young love,' or love in general...It just leads to the idea that either your love is pure, perfect and eternal, and you are storybook-compatible in every way with no problems, or you're LYING when you say 'I love you. Randall Munroe
lying church old-testament
The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New. Randall Terry
lying victory destruction
Truth has within it the seeds of its own victory; Lies have within them the seeds of their own destruction.
lying past years
There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said. Ralph Waldo Emerson
lying years bird
Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear; and you shall never find that perception again; never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds my lie between you and its return.
lying believe fate
Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.
lying sleep mind
The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
lying philosophy justice
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.
lying doe dishonesty
All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
lying past men
All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.
lying men justice
What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?
lying intelligence lap
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
lying past years
I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself. Shania Twain