Quotes about lying
lying father knowing
His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?" But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true. Lois Lowry
lying love-is world
-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.
lying evil tongue
Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time. Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind. LL Cool J
lying sick realizing
To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating. Manti Te'o
lying believe understanding
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder. Madeleine L'Engle
lying thinking sweaters
I've got a sweater." Ben pulled off his coat and held it out for her. "Here." "Thanks, Ben. It's lovely and warm." Then she said, "Ben, I-- I can tell you how I feel about-- about everything. I think you're the best friend I've ever had. I-- I'd lie down and die for you if you wanted me to." "Honey," Ben said. "When I get you to lie down for me it won't be to die.
lying government-lies resistance
It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted. Lysander Spooner
lying white doe
But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that. Lucy Hale
lying hands house
Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its suggested relations to humanity. Things announce and wait for persons. The house would not have been thus beautifully built and furnished, except for an expected tenant. Lucy Larcom
lying childhood magic
For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond those misty hills that bound the golden road. Lucy Maud Montgomery
lying night thinking
I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.
lying
Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.
lying gossip nine
Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
lying responsibility proud
Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome. Louis Sullivan
lying light long
I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound. Louise Bogan
lying vanity deceit
O vanity, mislead no more! Louisa May Alcott
lying love-you self-love
Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.
lying mean interesting
I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting. John Green
lying hands fiction
Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.
lying book soul
We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down because it threatens the overall quality and breadth of American literature.
lying justice rewards
Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God than complain of the straithandedness of Providence. And if we did but consider that there lies upon God no obligation of justice or gratitud to reward any of our duties, it would cure our murmurs (Gen. 32:10). John Flavel
lying struggle heart
It would much conduce to the settlement of your heart, to consider that by fretting and discontent you do yourself more injury than all your afflictions could do. Your own discontent is that which arms your troubles with a sting; you make your burden heavy by struggling under it. Did you but lie quietly under the hand of God, your condition would be much more easy than it is.
lying true-life want
If you want to be true to life, start lying about it John Fowles
lying moving past
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on from the reassuring repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Mythology distracts us everywhere. John F. Kennedy
lying mean law
The most effective means of upholding the law is not the State policeman or the marshals or the National Guard. It is you. It lies in your courage to accept those laws with which you disagree as well as those with which you agree.
lying matter propaganda
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
lying deceit would-be
Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies. Jonathan Mayhew
lying people telling-the-truth
Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth. Jonathan Maberry
lying mean giving
To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth. Jonathan Frid
lying goal joy
We can call this "the progress principle": Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them. Shakespeare captured it perfectly: "Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing." Jonathan Haidt
lying writing singing
The different part of writing and singing worship lies in the identity and truth of God's Word and true intention for us as His followers on this Earth. Jonathan Cain
lying hate people
Lying is too much trouble. You have to make sure to taste each word before letting it off your tongue. I hate that. It's hard enough making people understand without lying. Jonathan Carroll
lying influence creation
Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I'll be allowing something immediate influence of God on creation still? Jonathan Edwards