Quotes about lying
lying done world
For want of me the world's course will not fail;When all its work is done the lie shall rot;The truth is great and shall prevailWhen none cares whether it prevail or not. Coventry Patmore
lying presses ifs
If you (the press) lie about us, I will hit you, Kurt will shoot you, and we both will sue. Courtney Love
lying would-be ifs
And if that isnt the truth, it would be a lie. Colin Mochrie
lying home men
When a man lies he murders some part of the world These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives All this i cannot bear to witness any longer Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home James Hetfield
lying greatness men
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. Blaise Pascal
lying should-have ideas
What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time...? Anne Lamott
lying grief grieving
All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But, what I've discovered is that the lifelong fear of grief keeps us in a barren, isolated place, and that only grieving can heal grief. The passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.
lying joy grace
Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces. Ann Voskamp
lying thinking rushing
Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away.
lying technique ancient
It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri. Alastair Reynolds
lying mean thinking
I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth. Albert Finney
lying heart facts
Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler. Albert Camus
lying
Freedom is the right to never have to lie.
lying men greatness
The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
lying hypocrisy too-much
I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.
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?
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