Quotes about lying
lying optimistic men
Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief-optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man. Arthur Miller
lying dust names
Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!
lying men self
There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in robbery. The evil of a robber does not lie in the fact that he pursues his own interests, but in what he regards as to his own interest; not in the fact that he pursues his values, but in what he chose to value; not in the fact that he wants to live, but in the fact that he wants to live on a subhuman level... Ayn Rand
lying justice ignorant
The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The security of the republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and the ignorant. In indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster. Charles Evans Hughes
lying data mad
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on. Charles Fort
lying long-ago bravery
Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery. Charles Bukowski
lying men thinking
Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.
lying fire mad
"she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
lying i-can
I lie as truthfully as I can.
lying book writing
In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty. Edward Abbey
lying world sufficient
The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.
lying greed paradise
Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.
lying heaven kingdoms
Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
lying writing enemy
Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
lying men paradise
Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.
lying heart men
If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
lying gains deceit
All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth. Aristotle
lying heart perfection
The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.
lying words-of-wisdom causes
Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.
lying government political
A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.
lying moving earth
It is clear that the earth does not move, and that it does not lie elsewhere than at the center.
lying mean men
So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency...
lying aging conformity
We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.
lying mean men
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
lying heart soul
The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.
lying two soul
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.
lying people produce
And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.
lying wish
For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .
lying philosophical perfect
Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative
lying golf water
May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters. Ben Hogan
lying desire deceit
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace. Ben Hecht
lying doors judging
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies? Ben Jonson
lying two literature
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round. Elizabeth Bowen