Quotes about lying
lying deceit dishonesty
Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them. Norodom Sihanouk
lying biographies would-be
All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage. Norman Spinrad
lying media requirements
...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth. Norman Mailer
lying each-day television
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
lying giving lists
If the Resurrection had not occurred, why would the apostle Paul give such a list of supposed eyewitnesses? He would immediately lose all credibility with his Corinthian readers by lying so blatantly. Norman Geisler
lying believe self
Most relativists believe that relativism is absolutely true and that everyone should be a relativist. Therin lies the self-destructive nature of relativism. The relativist stands on the pinnacle of an absolute truth and wants to relativize everything else.
lying fall grace
We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God - which is another way of saying that all our seeking will fall short unless God starts and finishes the search. The decisive part of our seeking is not our human ascent to God, but His descent to us. Without God's descent there is no human ascent. The secret of the quest lies not in our brilliance but in His grace. Os Guinness
lying believe thinking
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks. Orson Welles
lying yankees pressure
I always feel pressure. What I don't have is fear. But pressure, there always is, and whoever says otherwise is lying. Orlando Hernandez
lying soldier battle
Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in. Origen
lying objectivity hypocrisy
Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only. Oriana Fallaci
lying play double-standard
Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
lying people losing
People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing. Orhan Pamuk
lying medicine doctors
No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries. Oliver Wendell Holmes
lying expression feelings
Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your words, and cannot be deceived by them; but what he grasps he grasps with infallible precision, namely the expression that goes with the words, the total, spontaneous, involuntary expressiveness which can never be simulated or faked, as words alone can, too easily. Oliver Sacks
lying philosophy differences
The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
lying humanity individuality
Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.
lying deceit tools
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
lying knowledge branches
To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.
lying people world
This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace. Olga Korbut
lying flower passion
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering. Octave Mirbeau
lying technology reality
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning. Octavio Paz
lying foundation language
Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the only place where it develops.
lying adventure men
Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.
lying learning two
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
lying community experts
As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy. Nursultan Nazarbayev
lying secret dexter-morgan
There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface. Michael C. Hall
lying views deceit
The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a farce, ... We shall in the coming days and weeks see what we can do to expose the pack of lies and innuendoes that characterise the garbage in this report. Meles Zenawi
lying destiny diplomats
Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny. Mason Cooley
lying poverty etc
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.
lying promise sufficient
Lies and promises are necessary but not sufficient.
lying vanity healthy
Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.
lying
Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.