Quotes about lying
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 men world
A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never be anything but a failure in the world’s estimation, and may do as he pleases. The poet is a man on the sidelines of life, sidelined for life. He belongs to the aristocracy of the outcast, the lowest of the low, below the salt of the earth. A member of the most ancient regime in the world. One that cannot, it seems, be overthrown. Walter Martin
lying willing
Are we willing to do for the truth what others are willing to do for a lie?
lying mean dramatic-situations
We're all impostors to ourselves. By that I mean that we know instinctively, intimately, the difference between whom we are inside and who we appear to be to others. Most of the time - when we aren't flat lying about something or playing a particularly stylized role in some heightened dramatic situation - this difference between the internal and the external is modest and manageable. Walter Kirn
lying mean community
There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies. Walter Lippmann
lying feet arms
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms. Voltaire
lying play packs
History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
lying men eulogy
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
lying agree
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...
lying kitchen honest
You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen. William Stafford
lying stories crime
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie. William Landay
lying men voice
Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the populace - or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose "soul is marching on," though his "body lies mouldering in the grave," or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who "gave himself for the world," - in defence of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man! William Lloyd Garrison
lying boredom perception
Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited. William Least Heat-Moon
lying eye men
What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the mind, a place he has never dreamed of? Maybe it's like the force in spores lying quietly under asphalt until the day they push a soft, bulbous mushroom head right through the pavement. There's nothing you can do to stop it.
lying flower race
The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds. William C. Bryant
lying eye dark
Stand here by my side and turn, I pray, On the lake below thy gentle eyes; The clouds hang over it, heavy and gray, And dark and silent the water lies; And out of that frozen mist the snow In wavering flakes begins to flow; Flake after flake, They sink in the dark and silent lake.
lying spring loss
Earth in beauty dressed Awaits returning spring. All true love must die, Alter at the best Into some lesser thing. Prove that I lie. William Butler Yeats
lying night done
All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
lying eye saving
Come, fix upon me that accusing eye. I thirst for accusation. All that was sung. All that was said in Ireland is a lie Breed out of the contagion of the throng, Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.
lying flower roots
Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
lying drinking home
A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.