Quotes about lying
lying
The best lies about me are the ones I told. Patrick Rothfuss
lying believe skills
I believe a writer's most important skill lies in being able to see things from different perspectives.
lying believe giving
...hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don't. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.
lying past men
Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before I start. I've told stories in the past, painted pictures with words, told hard lies and harder truths. Once, I sang colors to a blind man. Seven hours I played, but at the end he said he saw them, green and red and gold. That, I think, was easier than this. Trying to make you understand her with nothing more than words. You have never seen her, never heard her voice. You cannot know.
lying knowing who-we-are
True strength lies in our knowing, individually, what we are, who we are, and what we want. Paget Brewster
lying inability
I just have an inability to lie. Paloma Faith
lying men young
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young. Lillian Hellman
lying thinking reason
The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him. Lester Maddox
lying reality wish
The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion. Leon Trotsky
lying force motive
The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
lying long principles
As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.
lying compare i-can
Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
lying believe heart
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it. Learned Hand
lying heart men
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias.
lying acting should
I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying? Laurence Olivier
lying acting convincing
What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
lying sunny spots
With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks. Leigh Hunt
lying mean evil
When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden is evils.
lying leaving growing
All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie. She was learning to love. Lauren Oliver
lying liars telling-the-truth
Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?
lying disease firsts
They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie.
lying living-a-lie feels
But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love." "Yet I am living without love." "Then you are either living a lie or not living at all. Nawal El Saadawi
lying world danger
Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.
lying commitment opportunity
We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among the peoples of the world, the vast majority of whom live in poverty without hope, opportunity or choices in life. These conditions are a breeding ground for division that can cause a desperate people to resort to nuclear weapons as a last resort. Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place... Muhammad Ali
lying cat ducks
Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.'
lying commitment generosity
Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place for all...
lying sweetness-of-life formality
The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.
lying magic facts
I always liked magic. I was always embarrassed by liking magic because I liked the fact that they're just lying. Mitchell Hurwitz
lying believe heart
I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of sad and futile opposition to the dictates of either heart or reason. The presence of an enthusiast makes me as cold as a midwinter's day, and, I believe, frequent association with a listless phlegmatic would make me an impassioned dreamer. Mikhail Lermontov
lying reading political
Those mutually opposed manifestos are written with the same eloquence, they breathe the same virtuous indignation, and one is just as sincere as the other; that is to say both of them are equally brazen in their lies, and it is only fools who are deceived by them. Sensible persons, all those who have had some political experience, do not even take the trouble of reading such manifestos. Mikhail Bakunin
lying divine theology
Theology is the science of the divine lie.
lying numbers curves
A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that don’t ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become. Because as every woman knows, measurements are only statistics... and STATISTICS LIE. Marilyn Monroe
lying believe promise
Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.