Quotes about lying
lying insanity despair
We know exactly where the path to despair and insanity lies. It's in that sense that life is meaningless, there's nothing about today that's worth doing because it's just like yesterday and it's going to be just like tomorrow. Ian Bogost
lying fighting waiting
Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday. Ian Anderson
lying opposites giving
Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought. Iain Banks
lying making-love way
All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down. Hugh Walpole
lying today tomorrow
It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow. Hugh Prather
lying ambitious balls
When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.
lying world said
It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic. Hugo Chavez
lying politics boat
You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It's called vetting. Printing the truth about liberals - that's called 'swift-boating'. Howie Carr
lying thinking years
If you really think that houses prices are going to go up next year and the year after, you feel if I don't buy it this year, I'm going to have to buy it next year. And when somebody makes it very easy for you to do it by saying you don't really have to put up my money, you can lie about your income a little, or we'll give you 100 percent mortgage, you're going to do it, because everybody that's done it has been proven right. You have what they call social tools, and, you know, you're going to feel like an idiot if you didn't do it, because the house cost more. Howard Warren Buffett
lying people common-sense
The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense. Howard Zinn
lying past government
History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth.
lying flower butterfly
Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies Howard Mumford Jones
lying passion next
Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them. Howard Hodgkin
lying hands would-be
If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying. Howard Gardner
lying musical tragedy
You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool Howard Barker
lying people sometimes
There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense. Hosea Ballou
lying father practice
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others. Horace
lying two vices
Most virtue lies between two vices.
lying opposites two
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
lying political tools
Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings. Hannah Arendt
lying battle losing
The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.
lying order lines
There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.
lying past violence
Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.
lying revolution action
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
lying reality understanding
There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them. Guy Gavriel Kay
lying heart hands
And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it. Guy de Maupassant
lying doe truth-is
He who does not lie does not know what truth is. Friedrich Nietzsche
lying army order
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".
lying dew common
What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it?
lying wrestling men
We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?
lying mouths may
You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.
lying men indignant
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
lying common exception
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.