Quotes about lying
lying men self
Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men. Robert A. Heinlein
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.
lying vitality language
The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.
lying miracle magic
No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.
lying marijuana police
We see the corrupt prison system, we see the corrupt police system, we see the corruption in the government, from the top on down. You know, it's built based on lies. However, the marijuana industry itself, because it was an underground industry, showed us the way we could exist on this planet. Tommy Chong
lying usa justice
Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.
lying europe people
I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It's ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn't deserve anything but lies. Tom Verlaine
lying writing rocks
I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of playing piano and then playing sax for a number of years. I kind of got into rock backwards. A lot of guys go into rock and then get sick of it and then go into something else. I came the other way, so I've always just had a lot more stuff lying around.
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.