Quotes about lying
lying thinking next-day
At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too much," or at least never to reveal one's full abilities to management, because "the more they think you can do, the more they'll use you and abuse you." My mentors in these matters were not lazy; they just understood that there are few or no rewards for heroic performance. The trick lies in figuring out how to budget your energy so there'll be some left over for the next day. Barbara Ehrenreich
lying want red
I just refuse to listen to any more lies. You hear them from FEMA, you hear them from Red Cross and I just didn't want to hear it from him. Avery Johnson
lying ability loses
Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.
lying differences years
The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.
lying helping-others tasks
The value of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and not in the importance or magnitude of the service. Even the lowliest task or deed is made holy, joyous, and prosperous when it is filled with love. Charles Fillmore
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 evil four
It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of "an abundance or surplus" arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market. Benjamin Graham
lying interest market-timing
The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.
lying intelligent analysis
We are convinced that the intelligent investor can derive satisfactory results from pricing of either type (market timing or fundamental analysis via price). We are equally sure that if he places his emphasis on timing, in the sense of forecasting, he will end up as a speculator and with a speculator's financial results." And "The speculator's primary interest lies in anticipating and profiting from market fluctuations. The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.
lying law insecurity
Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society. Bruce Schneier
lying light boots
If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on'. Bruce Springsteen
lying believe achievement
I believe the greatest achievements of your life lie ahead of you. Brian Tracy
lying opportunity benefits
Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lie seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity.
lying writing sound
All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do. Brian K. Vaughan
lying weekend here-i-am
Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry weekend. Of course, some might say, 'you've made your own bed - now you must lie in it!' But, while fully accepting that dictum, I'm not yet quite prepared to lie down... Brian Aldiss
lying achievement apes
The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.
lying thinking situation
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. Brendan Coyle
lying worst
The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves. Brad Meltzer
lying together needs
But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don't line up anymore, and the lie is in that not lining up, the lie is in not being what she needs but pretending that he is. No one says a word, and she sees it every minute they have together. Brad Barkley
lying caring unique
Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us. Boyd Rice
lying moving love-you
I thought I would love you forever—and, a little, I may, in the way I still move toward a crate, knees bent, or reach for a man: as one might stretch for the three or four fruit that lie in the sun at the top of the tree; too ripe for any moment but this, they open their skin at first touch, yielding sweetness, sweetness and heat, and in me, each time since, the answering yes. Jane Hirshfield
lying believe hands
I believe the only hope for mankind lies in the hands of our young people. Jane Goodall
lying taken issues
My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued to say is that the POW's are lying if they assert it was North Vietnamese policy to torture American Prisoners. Jane Fonda
lying book library
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence. Jan Morris
lying two way
If you're living two lives and you're lying to everyone, you're bound to slip up, in some way, you're bound to get something wrong, and you're bound to get found out. Jamie Bell
lying poverty depth
Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty. Juvenal
lying heart matter
We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter. Antonin Artaud
lying believe men
The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.