Quotes about lying
lying men civilization
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. Homer
lying prove provinces
Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province. Huston Smith
lying writing order
I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words. Hunter S. Thompson
lying reality enchantment
Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced. Hugo von Hofmannsthal
lying book form
Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. Humphrey Carpenter
lying believe trying
...and he just sat back and stared at the tube, almost interested in what was happening, trying to find the ability to believe in that lie so he could believe the one within. Hubert Selby, Jr.
lying long matter
It matters not how great the pressure is, only where the pressure lies. As long as the pressure does not come between me and my Savior, but presses me to Him, then the greater the pressure, the greater my dependence upon Him. Hudson Taylor
lying real secret
The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.
lying heart matter
It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies -- whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.
lying exercise years
In the 1960s, if you introduced a new product to America, 90% of the people who viewed it for the first time believed in the corporate promise. Then 40 years later if you performed the same exercise, less than 10% of the public believed it was true. The fracturing of trust is based on the fact that the consumer has been let down. Howard Schultz
lying small-objects broken
As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water skins lying on the floor together with alabaster jars, whole and broken, and coloured pottery vases; all pertaining to some disturbed burial, but telling us nothing to whom they belonged further than by their type which was of the late XVIIIth Dyn. These were disturbing elements as they pointed towards plundering. Howard Carter
lying greatest-fear anticipation
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation. Honore de Balzac
lying law names
Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?
lying men yes-i-can
Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.
lying overcoming wickedness
It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.
lying worry misery
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
lying judging literature
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
lying struggle people
The only thing is I am a little bit ashamed of is I didn't come out earlier, that I didn't have the strength to do it, the courage to break that lie. But everyone goes on their own path to do this, and I don't want the struggle to be so hard for other people. Ian Thorpe
lying writing people
I always wanted praise and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic and that wasn't good enough for me. I wanted people to write about me, not me about them. So I thought, What could I do? I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't act or anything like that. OK, I can write. Harvey Pekar
lying kissing add
I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in." But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of "low intensity conflict..." What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies. Harold Pinter
lying wind choices
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection - unless you lie - in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.
lying people trying
I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article. James Blunt
lying planets windy
I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie. James Branch Cabell
lying responsibility fog
I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it. James Bovard
lying merit matter
Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit. Jalen Rose
lying years australia
I have no problem with my age. I've been acting for 50 years in Australia and everyone knows my age because I started at 15. So there was never any point in lying about it. Jacki Weaver
lying mean years
You hear a lot of people, they turn 40 and it really bugs them and they get depressed or whatever. I don't know - I just don't feel that way. I feel 19 years old all the time. I mean, it's not a lie. I could easily say, God, I feel 70. Or maybe I seem like I'm 70 or 200 or something to other people, I don't know. My brain feels 19 all the time. And that's a good spot. Jack White
lying errors rooms
In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver. James Geary
lying patterns care
Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace. James Gleick
lying lied needed
Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something James Frey
lying heart men
And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much has been saved, much must now pass away; and the power of the Three Rings also is ended. And all the lands that you see, and those that lie round about them, shall be dwellings of Men. For the time comes of the Dominion of Men, and the Elder Kindred shall fade or depart. J. R. R. Tolkien
lying rain fall
Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by
lying dark giving
You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark, I should dance for joy. Even so, I cannot help feeling happy; happier than I have felt for a long time.