Quotes about lying
lying fall swimming
His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly it did not seem of any particular use at the moment. J. R. R. Tolkien
lying heart eye
Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing! And I have seen it only for an instant in the house of Elrond! Could I not have a sight of it again?" Frodo looked up. His heart went suddenly cold. He caught the strange gleam in Boromir's eyes, yet his face was still kind and friendly. "It is best that it should lie hidden," he answered. "As you wish. I care not." said Boromir.
lying names done
Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your rescue and sake-keeping. But now you have done ill to me, friend, to betray my right name, and call my doom upon me, from which I would lie hid.' But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.
lying healing hands
Alas, not me, lord!" she said. "Shadow lies on me still. Look not to me for healing! I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle.
lying eye night
Burn, burn tree and fern! Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch To light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Bake and toast ‘em, fry and roast ‘em! till beards blaze, and eyes glaze; till hair smells and skins crack, fat melts, and bones black in cinders lie beneath the sky! So dwarves shall die, and light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Ya-harri-hey! Ya hoy!
lying hate long
Then Morgoth stretching out his long arm towards Dor-lomin cursed Hurin and Morwen and their offspring, saying: 'Behold! The shadow of my thought shall lie upon them wherever they go, and my hate shall pursue them to the ends of the world.
lying names doom
The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.
lying stupid dragons
I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.
lying night dragons
I don't know how to say it, but after last night I feel different. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back. It isn't right to see Elves now, nor dragons, nor mountains, that I want - I don't rightly know what I want: but I have something to do before the end, and it lies ahead, not in the Shire. I must see it through, sir, if you understand me.
lying adventure hiking
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead
lying toil may
But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.
lying adventure hands
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.
lying stones graves
He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES. Izaak Walton
lying kids hard-work
We are missing the truth. We live in a society that lies and fosters and sells dishonesty at a discount. Remember the line, 'America spells cheese K-R-A-F-T? That does not spell cheese! We tell our kids that as long as it looks good on the outside, don't worry about the inside. Or work hard and you'll be rewarded in the end. That's not necessarily true anymore. We don't tell the truth about certain things. Young people see our hypocrisy. We haven't given them a model to follow. Iyanla Vanzant
lying excellence taste
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. Isaac Disraeli
lying men helping
It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood. Isaac Bashevis Singer
lying men want
Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.
lying believe thinking
I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea that the Universe is a physical or chemical accident, a result of blind evolution. Even though I learned to recognize the lies, the clichés and the idolatries of the human mind, I still cling to some truths which I think all of us might accept some day.
lying white black
Enough white lies can scorch the earth black. Isaac Marion
lying succeed ashamed
Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. Isaac Asimov
lying reputation telling-the-truth
Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.
lying used
The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.
lying men dignity
A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man. Immanuel Kant
lying believe men
By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.
lying perfection
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
lying evil
But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.
lying february i-can
It's February the 22ndAnd I can't tell a lie. Irving Berlin
lying love-you ocean
How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie. How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?
lying struggle opportunity
For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality. Paul Allen
lying details stories
The truth of the story lies in the details. Paul Auster
lying world novelists
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
lying want telling-the-truth
I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over. Patrick Marber
lying trying world
What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.