Quotes about lying
lying serious
There are serious budgetry issues that need to be worked through. Playing a game of lying about what's in the content of legislation isn't going to get them anywhere.
lying class roots
Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that. Tony Benn
lying violent-acts purpose
The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror. Tony Blair
lying our-world agreement
It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and yet... the whole world lies between. Thomas Wolfe
lying believe school
In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right to rest our hopes not on a belief in his blunders, but on the soundness of our provisions. Nor ought we to believe that there is much difference between man and man, but to think that the superiority lies with him who is reared in the severest school. Thucydides
lying skills fire
Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke. Robert A. Heinlein
lying long wish
It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You offered to cook." "Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your finger" "As you wish." He pressed the button. "But don't forget who cooked dinner.
lying mystery behinds
Behind every mystery lies another mystery.
lying way shut-up
I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
lying men self
Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.
lying fall grace
How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden. Rick Bass
lying bears swear
Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie. Thomas Brooks
lying fiction sometimes
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written. Tim O'Brien
lying opposites hot
It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.
lying fiction helping
Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
lying struggle writing
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences--what Keats called agonie ennuyeuse (the tedious agony)--that necessary time for renewal, lying fallow, gestation, in the natural cycle of creation. The silences I speak of here are unnatural: the unnatural thwarting of what struggles to come into being, but cannot. Tillie Olsen
lying
I was living a life of a lie, I really was. Tiger Woods
lying water faces
The worst possible thing ... was to lie dead in the water with any problem. Solve it, solve it quickly ... If you solved it wrong, it would come back and slap you in the face, and then you could solve it right. Thomas Watson, Jr.
lying garden may
If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay; Which being well filled with muck by and by, to cover with mould, for a season to lie.
lying math discovery
Logic leaves us no choice. In that sense, math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their consequences. … in mathematics our freedom lies in the questions we ask – and in how we pursue them – but not in the answers awaiting us. Steven Strogatz
lying answers mathematics
In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us.
lying recovery alcoholism
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. Steven Soderbergh
lying men gold
Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.
lying errors reverse
All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.
lying valleys may
The hill pines were sighing, O'ercast and chill was the day; A mist in the valley lying Blotted the pleasant May. Robert Bridges
lying balance administration
Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen.
lying magic accepted
Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.
lying fall men
When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.
lying home cheater
Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it. Tom Shadyac
lying trying bathroom
Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try. Tom Holt
lying mean giving
Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance. Tom Hodgkinson
lying care definitions
The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of "chosen-ness" and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid. Toni Morrison
lying night breathing
...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor discusts you, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet.