Quotes about lying
lying earth guests
Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. W. H. Auden
lying littles noses
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
lying vegas bed
Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead.
lying sadness eye
Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye.
lying thinking speak
All well bred persons lie – Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think… William Congreve
lying deceit naked
No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
lying night care
The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, "Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more." William Cowper
lying poet boast
And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.
lying names brain
When scandal has new-minted an old lie, Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply, 'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears Gathering around it with erected ears; A thousand names are toss'd into the crowd, Some whisper'd softly, and some twang'd aloud, Just as the sapience of an author's brain, Suggests it safe or dangerous to be plain.
lying sick solitude
Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
lying media taught-us
Folks, Brian Williams isn't the exception. He's exactly what they've taught us to expect from them all. It's not journalism any more - it's entertainment, it's celebrity, it's agendas and it's money. All too often, a lie is now an acceptable way of communicating. To the media, a lie has as much value as the truth. Wayne LaPierre
lying past worry
Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future. Wayne Dyer
lying adventure sleep
Look at The Adventure. A boat by night is a wonderful sight. This is the way to start a new life, with a hurricane lamp shining at the top of the mast, and the coastline disappearing behind one as the whole world lies sleeping. Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world. Tove Jansson
lying party struggle
Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her own way. People join together in order to win or defend this right. But this is where a terrible, fateful error is born: the belief that these groupings in the name of a race, a God, a party or a State are the very purpose of life and not simply a means to an end. No! The only true and lasting meaning of the struggle for life lies in the individual, in his modest peculiarities and in his right to these peculiarities. Vasily Grossman
lying philosophical self
Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good. Valerie Solanas
lying economic interest
The government built the grid to favor one industry over others. But I don't hear any conservatives screaming about that. Folks don't understand that the elite economic interests that are holding them down are also feeding them a bunch of lies. Van Jones
lying fighting thinking
I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on this point during the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama and McCain both ran on a clean energy platform. But now, uncontested lies have eroded hard-won public understanding. So, we have to go back and make the case again.
lying fighting past
On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide. I have been inundated with calls - from across the political spectrum -- urging me to 'stay and fight.' But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
lying philosophy eye
I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself. Van Morrison
lying light hands
Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way. Ursula K. Le Guin
lying confusion needs
Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well.
lying gaps twisted
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.
lying novelists prophet
Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.
lying fall heart
Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken by the world. They gyre and fall; they see through everything, and are blind.
lying belief
Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.
lying believe defense
... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.
lying men news
I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.
lying commitment people
As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange. Twyla Tharp
lying action can-do
There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
lying promise fool
One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying. Vladimir Putin
lying pursuit-of-happiness men
It is not the function of the State to make men happy. They must make themselves happy in their own way, and at their own risk. The functions of the State lie entirely in the conditions or chances under which the pursuit of happiness is carried on. William Graham Sumner
lying writing forever
All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there; do that; read; write; rise; lie down - will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age. William Godwin
lying heaven infancy
Heaven lies around us in our infancy. William Golding