Quotes about lying
lying personality skins
Beauty lies mainly, above all, in personality, not in the skin. Eva Longoria
lying writing successful
The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter. Evan Esar
lying stories suggestions
The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say. Isobelle Carmody
lying men facts
The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie. Israel Zangwill
lying novelists pieces
Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie. Italo Calvino
lying past journey
what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually as he advanced on his journey, because the traveller's past changes according to the route he has followed: not the immediate past, that is, to which each day that goes by adds a day, but the more remote past. Arriving at each new city, the traveller finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.
lying years break-through
Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them. Isadora Duncan
lying world half
The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies.
lying government essence
We live in a regime built on force and lies. In essence, it's the same here as in Uzbekistan, except the government here is better at presenting itself to the outside world. Isa Gambar
lying fall simple
I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north sky that sets it beyond any other illumination. It is a light of such penetrating clarity that even a simple object lying by chance in such a light takes on an inner glow, almost a voluptuousness. Irving Penn
lying believe thinking
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.
lying stupidity survival
I'm prepared to concede that stupidity does not help survival. One must after all understand not to poke a tiger with a stick. But intelligence leads to curiosity, and curiosity has never been a quality that helps one pour his or her genes into the pool. The truth must lie somewhere between. Whatever the reason, it is clearly mediocrity, at best, that lives and breeds. Jack McDevitt
lying thinking civilization
Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to tact. Good-bye to being polite. Good-bye to showing tolerance for other people's buffooneries. The fact that we claim to admire Truth is probably the biggest lie of all. But that's part of the charade, part of what makes us human, and we do not even think about it. In effect, we lie to ourselves. Lies are only despicable when they betray a trust.
lying opportunity complaints
Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are. Jack Ma
lying cutting rocks
Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the act which fathered the tool, and between the cracking of a marrow-bone and the riding down town in an automobile lies only a difference of degree. Jack London
lying night men
You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and you have refused to pay the price. Your life has been like a cabin where the fire is out and there are no blankets on the floor." He signaled to a slave to fill his glass, which he held aloft. "But I have lived. And I have been warm with life as you have never been warm. It is true, you shall live long. But the longest nights are the cold nights when a man shivers and lies awake. My nights have been short, but I have slept warm
lying men law
The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
lying passion men
It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.
lying care periods
There was a period when I just wanted to make what I wanted to make and I didn't care what lie I had to tell. Jack Nicholson
lying people influence
There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.
lying people
I'm not lying to myself like most people. Jack Kevorkian
lying sides remember
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all Jack Kerouac
lying lunch people
Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder at their own lies, will be to make them open up and be straight with one another. Swift and Rabelais and Sterne accomplished a step in that direction, and Burroughs another.
lying dark kissing
Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God antisexual somehow (p. 148)
lying matter harvard
The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.
lying believe army
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal. Jack Herer
lying heart
The heart lies to itself because it must. Jack Gilbert
lying roots saving
A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity. J. C. Ryle
lying water may
It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water. Isaac Watts
lying wicked way
Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.
lying two firsts
And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.
lying moving body
Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line. Isaac Newton
lying people festivals
Pontus , instituted among all people, as an addition or corollary of devotion towards God , that festival days and assemblies should be celebrated to them who had contended for the faith (that is, to lie martyrs ).