Quotes about lying
lying facts remember
Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity. Halldor Laxness
lying fall men
The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler. Gregory Corso
lying fighting people
That's how they manage to live together, a billion of them, in reasonable peace. They are not perfect, of course. They know how to fight and lie and cheat each other, and all the things that all of us do. But more than any other people in the world, the Indians know how to love one another. Gregory David Roberts
lying believe fate
In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.
lying dark sea
The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us. Homer
lying two together
Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.
lying believe heaven
It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be! Horace Bushnell
lying world facts
God made sin possible just as he made all lying wonders possible, but he never made it a fact, never set anything in his plan to harmonize with it. Therefore it enters the world as a forbidden fact against everything that God has ordained.
lying bridges deceit
You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals Ian Paisley
lying reality mind
The power of equations lies in the philosophically difficult correspondence between mathematics, a collective creation of human minds, and an external physical reality. Equations model deep patterns in the outside world. By learning to value equations, and to read the stories they tell, we can uncover vital features of the world around us... Ian Stewart
lying science conclusion
Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.
lying book thinking
Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the mattress. Yes," I said. "I think it was. Certainly, it's written that way. The end of the book is there before the beginning's hardly started. Ian Rankin
lying important done
Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying. Ian Mckellen
lying gravestone
I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'
lying skills organization
There are so many ways to help, by either sharing your skills or expertise, joining our board of directors or advisory boards, and donating. Regardless of what or how you share with ISF, we recognize that we don't have all the answers, and that solutions lie not in commonality but in diversity. Welcoming a broad range of thinkers, creators, and doers is what makes this organization thrive. Ian Somerhalder
lying insanity despair
We know exactly where the path to despair and insanity lies. It's in that sense that life is meaningless, there's nothing about today that's worth doing because it's just like yesterday and it's going to be just like tomorrow. Ian Bogost
lying fighting waiting
Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday. Ian Anderson
lying opposites giving
Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought. Iain Banks
lying making-love way
All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down. Hugh Walpole
lying today tomorrow
It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow. Hugh Prather
lying ambitious balls
When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.
lying world said
It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic. Hugo Chavez
lying politics boat
You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It's called vetting. Printing the truth about liberals - that's called 'swift-boating'. Howie Carr
lying thinking years
If you really think that houses prices are going to go up next year and the year after, you feel if I don't buy it this year, I'm going to have to buy it next year. And when somebody makes it very easy for you to do it by saying you don't really have to put up my money, you can lie about your income a little, or we'll give you 100 percent mortgage, you're going to do it, because everybody that's done it has been proven right. You have what they call social tools, and, you know, you're going to feel like an idiot if you didn't do it, because the house cost more. Howard Warren Buffett
lying people common-sense
The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense. Howard Zinn
lying past government
History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth.
lying flower butterfly
Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies Howard Mumford Jones
lying passion next
Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them. Howard Hodgkin
lying hands would-be
If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying. Howard Gardner
lying musical tragedy
You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool Howard Barker
lying people sometimes
There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense. Hosea Ballou
lying father practice
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others. Horace
lying two vices
Most virtue lies between two vices.