Quotes about lying
lying wind goes-on
You have a life and there are these volumes on either side that go unvisited; some day soon as the world winds he will lie beneath what he now stands on, dead as those insects whose sound he no longer hears, and the grass will go on growing, wild and blind. John Updike
lying space blue
We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies.
lying mean curves
A woman’s beauty lies, not in any exaggeration of the specialized zones, nor in any general harmony that could be worked out by means of the sectio aurea or a similar aesthetic superstition; but in the arabesque of the spine. The curve by which the back modulates into the buttocks. It is here that grace sits and rides a woman’s body.
lying deceit lateness
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
lying reality way
Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore, all photographs lie in one way or another. John Szarkowski
lying philosophy views
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious. John Stuart Mill
lying secret photographer
I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us. John Sexton
lying struggle fighting
Animals do not ‘give’ their life to us, as the sugar-coated lie would have it. No, we take their lives. They struggle and fight to the last breath, just as we would do if we were in their place. John Robbins
lying ideas intellectual
Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire. John Ralston Saul
lying two quality
[W]e have more than two options... a critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power.... [O]ur problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.
lying book sleep
Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep. John O'Hara
lying stealing theft
A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves James Lee Burke
lying asks
Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies. James Joyce
lying deceit done
And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.
lying moving our-world
The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically. James Rollins
lying flower passion
But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires. Still, anything can be endured if all humanity is watching. The martyrs prove it. We live in the attention of others. We turn to it as flowers to the sun. James Salter
lying heaven soul
Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not. James Russell Lowell
lying hate love-is
To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
lying real blessed
The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
lying believe writing
The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.
lying addiction infinite
Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us. James Harvey Robinson
lying team thinking
Their record is a little bit deceiving. I still think they are a very good team.
lying heart self-worth
This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind. Laura Hillenbrand
lying heart sweetness-of-life
The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom. Laura Ingalls Wilder
lying everyday-things way-to-live
The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
lying fighting giving
She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight. Libba Bray
lying fighting trying
I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.
lying dark soul
That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.
lying people
They kept the lie going, and the people loved it.
lying world
The world is a lie...not you and me.
lying mean snakes
Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now!" Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze. "I didn't mean..." "No one ever does." Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti.
lying heart greatness
Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.
lying thinking people
People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History