Quotes about lying
lying stupid men
The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods. Elbert Hubbard
lying hard-work rumor
The needlework of lies and rumors seeks to distract peoples attention from the daily business of governance under the Presidents leadership. Those who continually plot for the Presidents downfall will never succeed because she is a hard-working President with no other agenda than to promote our peoples welfare Eduardo Ermita
lying enough knows
One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know. Eduardo Chillida
lying heart roots
But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never. Edvard Munch
lying long black
A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box. Edsger Dijkstra
lying ignorance mouths
No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is. Eduardo Galeano
lying two horizon
Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.
lying mercy observe
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
lying believe world
Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody. Gertrude Stein
lying next speak
I see you lying next to me, with words I thought i'd never speak, awake and unafraid, asleep or dead? Gerard Way
lying work land
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. Havelock Ellis
lying character doe
Three or four million heads of households don't turn into tramps and cheats overnight, nor do they lose the habits and standards of a lifetime... They don't drink any more than the rest of us, they don't lie any more, they're no lazier than the rest of us.... An eighth or a tenth of the earning population does not change its character which has been generations in the molding, or, if such a change actually occurs, we can scarcely charge it up to personal sin. Harry Hopkins
lying thinking bullshit
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction. Harry Frankfurt
lying thinking impossible
It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.
lying bullshit enemy
Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.
lying hate war
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses... Harry Emerson Fosdick
lying unique answers
The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of poetic language only interpret what the poetry has already interpreted. Hans-Georg Gadamer
lying new-beginnings facts
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. Hal Borland
lying way interviews
It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked. Greta Van Susteren
lying years experience
It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all.
lying doctors dont-lie
You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees. Gordon Bethune
lying moving europe
We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a single market through a single currency to harmonising all your taxes and then having a federal fiscal policy and then effectively having a federal State. Gordon Brown
lying worry matter
We live in terribly complex times. We are confronted by very serious problems. Some of us are faced with sickness, with economic difficulties, with worry and concern over many matters. Our refuge, our peace, our well-being lie in walking in the way of the Lord. Gordon B. Hinckley
lying opportunity world
Education will equip you to do something worthwhile in the great world of opportunity that lies ahead.
lying self evil
There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. Glen Cook
lying book believe
Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.
lying being-true knows
. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.
lying long deceit
It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies. Gerhard Schroder
lying unimportant-things evil
It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil. Gerard De Nerval
lying knowing sparrows
The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst! Georgette Heyer
lying talent dormant
Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant. Horace
lying book giving
Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts. Herman Melville
lying ocean men
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.