Quotes about lying
lying eye expression
Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky. Friedrich Nietzsche
lying philosophical break-out
A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.
lying likes doe
Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!
lying mirrors self
And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.
lying men light
Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.
lying reflection men
The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.
lying mean waiting
Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part of mankind is capable of such despair. Christianity lies in wait for such as those and pursues them
lying men odds
Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination. George Berkeley
lying people facts
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs. George Bernard Shaw
lying history usual
History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
lying believe writing
Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
lying optimistic doctors
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
lying wells
Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
lying differences i-can
I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.
lying mean autobiography
All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.
lying government way
If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
lying people would-be
I’m not a bad person. I haven’t killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don’t kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me? Gena Showalter
lying hands promise
I never lie- except for the few times I do in fact lie, but it's never intentional, and i'm totally telling the truth right now" She raised her right hand "promise".
lying men taste
Being with a man incapable of telling a lie – a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied – sucked the big one.
lying party names
He has been known by many names: Lucifer, Beelzabub, Belial, the Prince of Lies, Satan, and at a party once an obnoxious drunk kept calling him "Dude." Gary Larson
lying philosophy book
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written Galileo Galilei
lying manipulation you-like-it
Of course there's conscious manipulation! Everything about a movie is manipulation ... If you like it, it's an interpretation. If you don't like it, it's a lie - but everything about these movies is a distortion." Frederick Wiseman
lying long soul
Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold. Frederick William Robertson
lying self class
Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay the foundations of the Christianity which is to be hereafter, deep and broad.
lying circles humans
In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure. Franz Kafka
lying principles melancholy
it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.
lying opportunity
One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
lying snow tree
For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.
lying needs failing
Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.
lying two deceit
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
lying coffins protect
The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it Erich Maria Remarque
lying fall ducks
We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6
lying thinking giving
I did not want to think so much about her. I wanted to take her as an unexpected, delightful gift, that had come and would go again — nothing more. I meant not to give room to the thought that it could ever be more. I knew too well that all love has the desire for eternity and that therein lies its eternal torment. Nothing lasts. Nothing.