Quotes about lying
lying mirrors blood
You said, 'I'm going to leave him because my love for you makes any other life a lie.' I've hidden these words in the lining of my coat. I take them out like a jewel thief when no-one's watching. They haven't faded. Nothing about you has faded. You are still the colour of my blood. You are my blood. When I look in the mirror it's not my own face I see. Your body is twice. Once you once me. Can I be sure which is which? Jeanette Winterson
lying want language
Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.
lying fall clouds
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.
lying years simplicity
Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. That still needs what it always needs - a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.
lying thinking movement
We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.
lying night long
Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.
lying dark narrative
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.
lying people library
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.
lying no-point
Nobody can hide their birthdays anymore, so there's no point in lying. Jessica Walter
lying fall animal
The legends lie cradled in the seagulls call, and the promise they made are ground beneath the sadist's fall. Jethro Tull
lying fighting intelligent
The chief significance of Alpha Phi Alpha lies in its purpose to stimulate, develop, and cement an intelligent, trained leadership in the unending fight for freedom, equality and fraternity. Our task is endless. Jewel
lying safety joy
Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful. Jeremy Taylor
lying believe eye
Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.
lying mean writing
Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying. Jennifer Stone
lying government silence
The best justification governments can find to shut down information is that lives are at risk. In fact, lives have been at risk as a result of the silences and lies revealed in these leaks. Jemima Khan
lying believe drunk
Well, once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies. Jello Biafra
lying real thinking
Shame on you, Crispin. Married how long, and you haven't spanked your wife with a metal spatula yet?" I'd gotten used to Ian's assumption that everyone was as perverted as he was, so I didn't miss a beat. "We prefer blender beaters for our kitchen utensil kink," I said with a straight face. Bones hid his smile behind his hand, but Ian looked intrigued. "I haven't tried that ... oh, you're lying, aren't you?" "Ya think?" I asked with a snort. Ian gave a sigh of exaggerated patience and glanced at Bones. "Being related to her through you is a real trial. Jeaniene Frost
lying hero men
Perhaps some of the appeal of the dangerous-but-yummy paranormal anti-hero lies in his scorn for societal expectations. Yes, women have come a long way, but there are still some cultural stigmas more associated with women than men.
lying eye artist
The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie. George Eliot
lying clouds imagination
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
lying track arrogance
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
lying humility hands
We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.
lying passion men
A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.
lying responsibility tolerance
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
lying men missing
Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still. Geoffrey Chaucer
lying levels cult
There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level. Gary Numan
lying dark light
I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have truly seen the light, and the light is black. Nature is genius at its most cruel and savage. No benevolent God could have come up with such an outrage.
lying heart difficult-work
Do not throw away your heart. Keep your heart. Your heart is all that matters ... Throw away your ancestors! ... Throw away your shyness and the anger that lies just a few inches beneath ... Accept the truth! And if there is more than one truth, then learn to do the difficult work -- learn to choose. You are good enough, you are HUMAN ENOUGH, to choose! Gary Shteyngart
lying spy terrible
I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy. Gary Oldman
lying trying internet
Don't ever, ever try to lie to the internet.... Gabe Newell
lying cocky self
If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
lying believe commitment
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
lying doubt one-hundred-years-of-solitude
A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.