Quotes about lying
lying mean two
What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what I understand. And these two certainties--my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle--I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope which I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my condition? Albert Camus
lying believe men
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished, by millions of solitary individuals whose and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history.
lying years leader
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.
lying men decision
Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.
lying able speak
Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.
lying divorce elements
The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.
lying real men
Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.
lying writing commitment
The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.
lying three categories
A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.
lying liberty
Liberty is the right not to lie.
lying fiction telling-the-truth
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
lying burden-of-proof support
If my interlocutor desires to convince me that Jupiter has inhabitants, and that his description of them is accurate, it is for him to bring forward evidence in support of his contention. The burden of proof evidently lies on him; it is not for me to prove that no such beings exist before my non-belief is justified, but for him to prove that they do exist before my belief can be fairly claimed. Similarly, it is for the affirmer of God's existence to bring evidence in support of his affirmation; the burden of proof lies on him. Annie Besant
lying two why-not
Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.
lying color stuff
What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color. Annie Dillard
lying men said-life
An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.
lying years cities
A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste. AnnaLynne McCord
lying together-we-can environmental
There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it. Clay Shirky
lying infidelity cost
Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once. Clayton Christensen
lying bed politics
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. Daniel J. Boorstin
lying reality tree
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose. Czeslaw Milosz
lying heaven cost
The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it. D. A. Carson
lying tree humanity
Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies. D. H. Lawrence
lying men process
Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being.
lying lambs lions
No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.
lying together lions
It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous. Crystal Eastman
lying eye deceit
So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love... Conor Oberst
lying hate opposites
There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality. Clint Eastwood
lying soul rebel
There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.
lying needs spots
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie. Clarence Darrow
lying philosophy judging
Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason. Daniel Defoe
lying eight rehearsal
I don't like to rehearse. And I couldn't understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor! Daniel Day-Lewis
lying giving use
All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses. Alexander MacLaren
lying half distinction
There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one. Alexander McCall Smith