Quotes about lying
lying monument
Relationships are monuments build on lies Dan Savage
lying thinking people
I think it's better to have limits. My limits are different from other people's limits. I'm all for freedom, I'm all for people doing what they want. I'm also all for people shouldering the consequences of their behaviors, and not being assholes, and not lying unless they need to, and being honest except when you shouldn't, and being faithful except when it's okay to cheat. I guess I'm just a mass of contradictions. Dan Savage
lying reading promise
In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it. Cynthia Ozick
lying body spirit
Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body. Cyril Connolly
lying autumn sun
Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils. Cyril Connolly
lying opportunity two
Opportunity lies between your own two ears Dan Miller
lying age forget
Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are. Cornelia Otis Skinner
lying gods-faithfulness security
In God's faithfulness lies eternal security. Corrie Ten Boom
lying hands potters
You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender. Corrie Ten Boom
lying confused fighting
I'm praying for Barack Obama to stay on the tightrope because I want to fight his right-wing critics. I want to down I want to ensure they don't lie about him. I'm sure they don't demonize him, and too much of that is going on. So I don't want my critiques to be in any way confused with the right-wing critiques, even though I'll fight for the right wing to be wrong in that regard. Cornel West
lying teaching people
I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself. Cornel West
lying pay living-a-lie
There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie. Cornel West
lying animal blow
Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that men wish to be serious but they do not understand how to be so. Between their acts and their ceremonies lies the world and in this world the storms blow and the trees twist in the wind and all the animals that God has made go to and fro yet this world men do not see. They see the acts of their own hands or they see that which they name and call out to one another but the world between is invisible to them Cormac McCarthy
lying book men
Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of rock. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things. The squatters in their rags nodded among themselves and were soon reckoning him correct, this man of learning, in all his speculations, and this the judge encouraged until they were right proselytes of the new order whereupon he laughed at them for fools. Cormac McCarthy
lying book years
Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at the lies arranged in their thousands row on row. He picked up one of the books and thumbed through the heavy bloated pages. He'd not have thought the value of the smallest thing predicated on a world to come. It surprised him. That the space which these things occupied was itself an expectation. Cormac McCarthy
lying sleep men
The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it. Cormac McCarthy
lying moving thinking
I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. Cormac McCarthy
lying dying
Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie. Cormac McCarthy
lying intelligent self
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone. Colm Toibin
lying
The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth. Colum McCann
lying inspiration ocean
Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge. What turns the gears in our brains isn't information, but ideas, inventions, and inspiration. Knowledge-not information-implies understanding. And beyond knowledge lies what we should be seeking: wisdom. Clifford Stoll
lying deceit train
I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off. Clifford Irving
lying believe thinking
The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all. Dashiell Hammett
lying writing feelings
I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first. Dawn French
lying team responsibility
Since the NBA purchased the New Orleans Hornets, final responsibility for significant management decisions lies with the Commissioner's Office in consultation with team chairman Jac Sperling. All decisions are made on the basis of what is in the best interests of the Hornets. In the case of the trade proposal that was made to the Hornets for Chris Paul, we decided, free from the influence of other NBA owners, that the team was better served with Chris in a Hornets uniform than by the outcome of the terms of that trade. David Stern
lying choices would-be
I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue. David Simon
lying true-happiness transcendental-meditation
True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies within. David Lynch
lying meditation true-happiness
The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. David Lynch
lying ocean creativity
There is this unbounded, infinite, eternal, level, ocean, within every human being. Inner happiness comes with consciousness, bliss, intelligence comes with it. Creativity, love. Human beings have a potential and it has names like enlightenment or fulfilment, or liberation. True happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. They say beauty is only skin deep but it's this stuff coming from the inside, absolute vibrant consciousness, absolute bliss David Lynch
lying television film
The future of American film lies on television. David Hare
lying years ideas
I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered. David Chalmers
lying bragging telling-the-truth
There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth. Curt Flood
lying eye alcohol
Look into the windows of my soul. The eyes never lie, they bloodshot red. Curtis Jackson