Quotes about lying
lying past destiny
To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny. Judy Chicago
lying telling-the-truth truth-is
Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite. Judith Viorst
lying mortality flavour
There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies... Joseph Conrad
lying eye writing
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
lying ocean twilight
Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon
lying men waiting
The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.
lying hate world
You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.
lying book dying
Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your head for a pillow when you lie dying? Very well; that is the book you want to study while you are living. There is but one such book in the world. Joseph Cook
lying deceit purpose
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice. Joseph Butler
lying heart dark
In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else. Kate Morton
lying rain complaining
When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain... Leonard Cohen
lying secret i-smile
I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .
lying character thinking
He [Bogie] had tremendous character and a great sense of honor and would not tolerate lies, even if they asked him what he thought of a movie. We were once at a screening at somebody's house, I forget whose, and they ran a movie that he was in, that he never thought much of. Afterward, the producer asked what he thought of it, and Bogie said "I think it's a crock." And this producer was horrified! He was about to release the movie, and he said to Bogie "Why would you say that?!" Bogie shrugged and said "Then don't ask me." He never played the schmoozing game. He was not into that at all. Lauren Bacall
lying arms faces
Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I'd have comforted him, but it would have been all lies. Laurell K. Hamilton
lying looks not-sure
They say not to look back, but if you’re not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?
lying sincere petite
I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.
lying hiding-something people
One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time.
lying choices way
Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.
lying knowing-who-you-are identity
The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.
lying flower zombie
I wanted to say something brilliant. My God, Holmes, how did you know the zombie was hiding in the flower pot? But I couldn't lie.
lying home want
His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.
lying faces mouths
You lie like butter wouldn't melt in your mouth, Edward." He smiled. "I don't lie to you." "Really," I said. The smile became a grin. "Okay, not most of the time, anymore." His face sobered. "I'm not lying now.
lying lust never-lie
Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.
lying romance opera
I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.
lying
The best lies are always at least partially true.
lying film difficult
It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films. Lars von Trier
lying guy handsome
I sure am handsome. I cant lie. This is one handsome guy. Landon Donovan
lying land rivers
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again! Langston Hughes
lying i-can
I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one. John Kendrick Bangs
lying heart names
This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his Heart at the Malicious Power of his Enemies Desired these words to be engraved on his Tomb Stone "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water." John Keats
lying essence space
Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!
lying technology genius
THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning. John Kenneth Galbraith
lying college use
We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or if you're a college professor, the virtue lies in leisure and the use you make of your leisure time.