Quotes about lying
lying reality people
People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between. Bill Gross
lying mean should-have
A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been. Betty Smith
lying school race
If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told. Bennie Thompson
lying mean riches
Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use. Benjamin Whichcote
lying bully voting
Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet. Benjamin Tucker
lying rock-and-roll echoes
Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head. Bob Seger
lying heart average
Because we can't comprehend it, and that's what allows us to do it again. And it is the normal, it's the average person that can do this. Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we'd have done it. That's the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, 'were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?' Bob Geldof
lying party promise
If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats. Chauncey Depew
lying order fields
Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients. Cheech Marin
lying men self
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth Che Guevara
lying heart disrespect
I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers. Charlie Sheen
lying inspiration angel
The Bible must be the invention either of good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. However, it was not written by good men, because good men would not tell lies by saying 'Thus saith the Lord;' it was not written by bad men because they would not write about doing good duty, while condemning sin, and themselves to hell; thus, it must be written by divine inspiration Charles Wesley
lying independent rivals
Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or the direct intervention of the Supreme Cause, must simply be considered as an avowal that we deem the question to lie beyond the domain of science. Charles Lyell
lying real civilization
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. Charles Lindbergh
lying airplane simple
Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should never overlook: that the construction of an airplane, for instance, is simple when compared [with] a bird; that airplanes depend on an advanced civilization, and that were civilization is most advanced, few birds exist. I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
lying safety chance
If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.
lying winning night
I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they're capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn't scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there's no telling what might have ensued. Charles Krauthammer
lying winning phones
I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down. Aisha Tyler
lying hate crawling
I wanted to clear all the lies and let the truth come out. I have hate crawling through my system. Aileen Wuornos
lying fake culture
The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie. Ai Weiwei
lying dark air
Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste Stream down the snows, till the air is white, As, myriads by myriads madly chased, They fling themselves from their shadowy height. The fair, frail creatures of middle sky, What speed they make, with their grave so nigh; Flake after flake, To lie in the dark and silent lake! William C. Bryant
lying white suffering
The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies.
lying men yesterday
You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right now. Every time we perceive ourselves, others, life, the world and God in a certain way, we are deepening the habits that will take over in old age. Every time I act on the insights that I am getting now I am deciding my future and choosing to be a kindly or cynical old man. Our yesterdays lie heavily upon our todays and our todays will lie heavily upon our tomorrows. John Powell
lying eye guilt
They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame. William Shakespeare
lying good-luck numbers
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
lying grief grieving
My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.
lying grief silence
My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.
lying procrastination delay
In delay there lies no plenty.
lying long littles
How long a time lies in one little word?
lying believe mean
If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don't believe you. I mean, they're lying. Bill Nye
lying believe punishment
I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment. Bill O'Reilly
lying home weather
On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography : lies , distortions, and half-truths half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion. Bill Moyers
lying fighting media
An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.