Quotes about lying
lying men average
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code. Carl Jung
lying design problem
The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.
lying fighting superstitions
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
lying circles goal
The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it. It is one of those paths to the centre.
lying team player
I'm not going to lie and say that I'm good at Madden. There are some good players out there. There are some good players on the team. I get skunked all of the time. Calvin Johnson
lying thinking people
So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong! Calista Flockhart
lying thinking class
I'm not a big fan of training, at all. I really don't like it. I've done a few acting classes and I've just hated them. I think they train you to do something, and sometimes you might not be able to break out of it. Acting is lying, and lying is acting. So, I just prefer to read the script and do it my own way. Callan McAuliffe
lying long-ago civilization
Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first...If we are to heed the admonition to put first things first...one of the main essentials which lies at the very beginning of civilization is that of security. Calvin Coolidge
lying pay envelopes
You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that. Billy Sunday
lying skins excuse
An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
lying pulled talked
I know she was being pulled over. She wasn't lying when I talked to her. She was stone-sober. She didn't drink. What really happened, we'll never know.
lying million missed pieces step
I snagged my shoelace, missed the step and crash, bang, wallop there were a million pieces of Chang ceramics lying around. Nick Flynn
lying civilization trying
The whole world is nothing but a noise, as hot as the inside of a tiger's mouth. They call it civilization - that is a lie! But some day you may have to go out, someone will try to take you out, and you will not understand them or what they are saying, unless you understand nothing, absolutely nothing, then you will manage. Djuna Barnes
lying love-is firsts
Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.
lying people mind
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere. Berthold Auerbach
lying character wrinkles
Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me your entire lifetime and never reveal yourself to me. To interpret wrinkles as character is insult not insight. Duane Michals
lying character men
Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own life. This freedom is the only climate in which (we feel) a human being may create his own happiness. ... Character itself lies deep and secret below the surface, unknown and unknowable by others. It is the mysterious core of life, which every man or woman has to cope with alone, to live with, to conquer and put in order, or to be defeated by. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
lying dangerous
Plain lies are dangerous. Dorothy L. Sayers
lying animal path
Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature. Dora Russell
lying two people
True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming. Donald Miller
lying reality breathing
In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus making a video game of life and a false-reality composed of lies, what gets lost is a joyful obsession with the work we create from the purest of motives, a sheer joy in the act of creation itself that causes us to lose ourselves in something else, and in a way die to ourselves over the absolute love of a thing we are breathing into life.
lying stories life-is
The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.
lying independent should
Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom. Don Henley
lying people would-be
If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on. Don Marquis
lying weight towns
The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there. Colleen Hoover
lying creative ego
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. Clare Boothe Luce
lying fall creative
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.
lying compassion needs
Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence. Dalai Lama
lying heart responsibility
Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the common humanity shared by us all lies at the heart of our difficulties. To overcome it, we should begin to develop, from the level of the individual through that of society to the world at large, what I call a sense of universal responsibility; a deep respect for every living being who lives on this one small planet and calls it home.
lying needs foundation
The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.
lying community world
In the modern world, the interests of a particular community can no longer be considered to lie within the confines of its own boundaries.
lying compassion needs
Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.
lying heart reality
There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your interest is also my interest. From this it becomes clear that "my" interest and "your" interest are intimately connected. In a deep sense, they converge.