Quotes about lying
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 littles way
It's not like it ruined my life, I was going to say, but then I didn't. Because it occurred to me that maybe it had ruined my life, in a kind of quiet way--a little lie, probably not so vital, insidiously separating me from everyone I loved. Dan Chaon
lying hands medicine
Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies. That, to me, is a lie. Everything's not okay. David Fincher
lying silence hard
So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time? David Foster Wallace
lying love-is attachment
Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. What you wish to sing of as tragic love is an attachment not carefully chosen. Die for one person? This is a craziness. Persons change, leave, die, become ill. They leave, lie, go mad, have sickness, betray you, die. Your nation outlives you. A cause outlives you.
lying thinking magic
Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician. David Copperfield
lying people hollywood
I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that. David Arquette
lying stupid moving
The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me.
lying men names
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars. David Antin
lying past responsible
I am not responsible for all the journalists in the past that have told lies. David Bailey
lying manipulate
We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell. David Attenborough
lying responsibility hands
The fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now have. That lays upon us, whether we like it or not, an awesome responsibility. In our hands now lies not only our own future, but that of all other living creatures with whom we share the earth.
lying climbing brain
I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie about what had happened. To my addled brain, this was plausible. Then I came to my senses and woke Eric up and told him that either he had to retreat or I'd throw him off. We went down and I never climbed again for a quarter of a century. Dave Cook
lying people deceit
I can't stand by and allow tens of thousands of innocent people to be slaughtered for lies. Dave Collins
lying ambition iraq
Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government. Donald Sutherland
lying integrity numbers
Integrity, number one. Even in business that's predicated on lies I refuse to become part of the lies that is all-consuming. Don King
lying boxing mind
There's only one rule anyone connected with boxing must keep in mind - everything you here in boxing is a lie.
lying ties boxing
I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties.
lying boxing confusing
When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing.
lying eye loss
Let the dry eyes perceive Others betray the lamenting lies of their losses By the curve of the nude mouth or the laugh up the sleeve. Dylan Thomas
lying heart winning
Friend, my enemy, I call you out. You, you, you there with a bad thorn in your side. You there, my friend, with a winning air. Who pawned the lie on me when he looked brassly at my shyest secret. With my whole heart under your hammer. That though I loved him for his faults as much as for his good. My friend were an enemy upon stilts with his head in a cunning cloud. -Dylan Thomas