Quotes about lying
lying roots sense-of-humor
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. Robertson Davies
lying heart mean
My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean the surest lot,That lies too high for base contempt,Too low for envy's shot. Robert Southwell
lying men sight
Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie,Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.
lying heart men
At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent. Robert Payne
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 humorous wife
My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she's as old as I am. Then she lies about my age.
lying twilight writing
I kind of wish people didn’t know who I am, that I could just lie, say I’m a speechwriter for Obama. This is what I said before Twilight. And then Obama came along and picked up all these young writers. I found out this guy, Jon Favreau — who’s not the actor Jon Favreau — is writing for him. And I was like, Wow, I wonder if the people who thought I was bullshitting at the time are like, ‘Oh my god. That guy! That kid who was drunk in some bar actually wrote the health care bill!’ Robert Pattinson
lying ifs knows
It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there. Robert M. Pirsig
lying subjects objects
Between the subject and the object lies the value.
lying real technology
The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use.
lying people silence
Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson
lying knives roots
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives. Robert Farrar Capon
lying wine mean
The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order to be wine: things are precious before they are contributory. It is a false piety that walks through creation looking only for lessons which can be applied somewhere else. To be sure, God remains the greatest good; but, for all that, the world is still good in itself. Indeed, since He does not need it, its whole reason for being must lie in its own natural goodness; He has no use for it, only delight.
lying simple cities
Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become.
lying writing thinking
Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths. Wally Lamb
lying growing faces
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face. Walt Disney
lying simple dimensions
Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.
lying tolerate
I won't tolerate lying. Vito Fossella
lying thinking white
Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything is only black or white. That, I think, is the most interesting thing in human nature. The fact that we have to do one thing and pretend something else. That’s when it becomes very interesting. If you can literally speak the way you feel, then it’s not interesting anymore. It’s when you have to lie that it becomes interesting. Vincent Cassel
lying heart eye
O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead. Walt Whitman
lying dark animal
I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things; Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.
lying glasses stained-glass
A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true. Saul Williams
lying race people
If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.
lying racism challenges
Ulysses is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic. Tom Paulin
lying dark minutes
Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another? Tom Perrotta
lying fragments trails
A lost trail always extends beyond the evidence, and even the trails we find are only fragments of the trails that lie beyond our comprehension. Tom Brown, Jr.
lying order principles
It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly. Tom Clancy
lying deceit packs
All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies. Tina Louise
lying kids world
The kids all knew me from Wayne's World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies. Tia Carrere
lying odds law
One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is among the many corrosive effects of having unjust laws: They tempt peaceful and (otherwise) honest people to lie so as to avoid being punished for behavior that is ethically blameless. Sam Harris
lying reality facts
Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.
lying understanding definitions
Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.