Quotes about lying
lying evil coffins
Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime. Lord Byron
lying maids deceit
Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!
lying agony
I see before me the gladiator lie.
lying heartless headless
By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.
lying garden way
In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain, but they have not entered this domain themselves. By their very nature they are more interested in the way in which the gate is opened than in the garden lying behind it. M. C. Escher
lying eye hands
Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.
lying years pieces
In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces. M. F. K. Fisher
lying coaching matter
It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie. Lou Holtz
lying night eggs
The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night. Loren Eiseley
lying vanity people
There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly. Lord Chesterfield
lying mean vanity
I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.
lying long may
It may be objected, that I am now recommending dissimulation to you; I both own and justify it. It has been long said: Qui nescitdissimular nescit regnare: I go still farther, and say, that without some dissimulation, no business can be carried on at all.
lying math opportunity
Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky - but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all. Malcolm Gladwell
lying training first-impression
our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions.
lying deceit telling-the-truth
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. Malcolm Bradbury
lying past men
A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him. Malcolm Cowley
lying drinking infidelity
The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing. Malachy McCourt
lying nba bird
Larry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another Larry Bird. Magic Johnson
lying night pay
We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent. Maj Sjowall
lying responsibility past
If Holocaust happened, then those who bear the responsibility for it have to be punished, and not the Palestinians. Why isn't research into a deed that occurred 60 years ago permitted? After all, other historical occurrences, some of which lie several thousand years in the past, are open to research, and even the governments support this. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
lying creativity meditation
Transcendental Meditation opens the awareness to the infinite reservoir of energy, creativity, and intelligence that lies deep within everyone. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
lying roots trying
Problems are not solved on the level of problems. Analyzing a problem to find its solution is like trying to restore freshness to a leaf by treating the leaf itself, whereas the solution lies in watering the root.
lying ocean bridges
It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples. Mahatma Gandhi
lying real tests
The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.
lying mean men
It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.
lying struggle men
Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.
lying men self
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
lying heart greatest-fear
I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.
lying heart greatness
The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.
lying past goal
The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
lying india village
The future of India lies in its villages
lying missing secret
You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.
lying needs helping
I won't lie to you - it's better to have someone to help you. I need it. Gael Monfils