Quotes about lying
lying heart car
Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman. H. L. Mencken
lying gay people
I've had gay friends who grew up in small towns in France who had to lie for most of their lives, even to themselves. But eventually such lies become stronger than the people, and they have to face them. Guillaume Canet
lying taken frustration
I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad. Grace Jones
lying stories wrong-words
The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story. Grace Paley
lying writing dope
I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time. You know, it's lie-around-the-bed time, it's sitting-like-a-dope-in-your-chair time. And that seems to me essential to any work.
lying trying answers
Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage. J. Robert Oppenheimer
lying believe miracle
Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
lying father thinking
Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture. H. P. Lovecraft
lying abandon
Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie. Grant Morrison
lying overcoming well-dressed
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome. [Though a lie be well dressed, it is ever overcome.] George Herbert
lying spurs reason
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
lying men looks
Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.
lying profit honour
Honour and profit lie not in one sacke. [Honour and profit lie not in one sack.]
lying long bed
Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it.
lying essence mathematics
The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom. Georg Cantor
lying ease vivid
[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another's nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence Georg Brandes
lying passion men
Forgetfulness, the unhistorical, is ... the atmosphere, in which alone life can come into being. In order to understand it, let us imagine a youth who is seized with a passion for a woman, or a man who is swayed by a passion for his work. In both cases what lies behind them has ceased to exist and yet this state (the most unhistorical that can be imagined) is that in which every action, every great deed is conceived and accomplished.
lying compassion humanity
A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
lying book reading
Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes. Georg C. Lichtenberg
lying deceit would-be
If it were true what in the end would be gained Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
lying down-and opinion
I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...
lying winter hands
People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
lying reading may
Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie. Gary Kemp
lying ambition innovation
**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23 Gary Hamel
lying humility humanity
The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous. Friedrich Nietzsche
lying power doe
In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.
lying men flames
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.
lying differences tree
Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.
lying passing-away causes
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
lying pride animal
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.
lying mean science
"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.
lying character dishonesty
That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
lying facts criminals
Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.