Quotes about lying
lying book people
The only stuff we looked at were incidents for which there are a paper trail ... (and) everything we looked up was full of lies. (Winfrey said) the belief this book is changing the lives of people trumps the fact that maybe the story is a fake. You would expect somebody in her position would take the ethical stand. William Bastone
lying spring book
Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring Lies open, writ in blossoms. William Allingham
lying dark men
As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul. Wilfred Owen
lying toads young
Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back. Washington Allston
lying peculiar half
The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
lying thinking traveler
I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.
lying sometimes self-deception
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself. W. Somerset Maugham
lying book heart
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
lying mirrors ordinary
Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . . Vladimir Nabokov
lying liars faces
Faces can lie. Backsides can't. Yoko Ono
lying would-be persons
To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie. Yancy Butler
lying years want
I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.
lying guy fool
In the beginning I had women problems, 'cause you know, I represent for the guys. But I was actin' a fool, whilin' out. I'm not sayin' I don't while out anymore. I'm not gonna lie to you. Wyclef Jean
lying cameras authenticity
The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never lie about the intentions behind the camera. Wolfgang Tillmans
lying night may
I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
lying youth-of-today deceit
That's where the future lies, in the youth of today. Willie Stargell
lying soul vocation
Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul. William Osler
lying may littles
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer. William Penn
lying acceptance deceit
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day. William Makepeace Thackeray
lying believe order
One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
lying men hypocrisy
How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?
lying piercings slave
The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within. Yehudi Menuhin
lying creating numbers
We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process... We have to keep on learning, creating, applying, by-passing, touching upon, refining and clarifying a number of notions and details that need to be improvised and applied and which, thank God, we cannot foresee. The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most pressing.
lying responsibility errors
Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively. Yehuda Berg
lying nice people
It is nice when people recognize me and approach me in the street. Anyone who says they don't like that is lying. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
lying play people
You always have to lie. I've been in plays that people don't enjoy and I pray that they lie to my face when I come outside. Zoe Lister-Jones
lying writing bridges
Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted you to write. Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before. Other people’s words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you’re going. Zadie Smith
lying cutting convince-us
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.