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lying night littles
I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief. Charles Dickens
lying deceit literature
Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.
lying nurse cradle
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse. Charles Caleb Colton
lying pride ignorant
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
lying ignorance space
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what do we truly know, or what can we clearly affirm, of any one of those important things upon which all our reasonings must of necessity be built--time and space, life and death, matter and mind?
lying men shining
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
lying heart thinking
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.
lying ambition mean
I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.
lying sadness boys
The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.
president doorstep
Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president. Al Sharpton
president would-be said
When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
president together done
Never be easy for any president to deal with any Congress. But republicans got to work together. We got to get things done. Chris Christie
president needs allies
When the president of the United States says he's going to do something, he needs to do it. That makes not only our adversaries more emboldened. It makes our allies more nervous.
president united-states trump
He [Doanald Trump] had no business being president of the United States.
president needs world
The president needs to be a force that is trusted in the world.
president clinton
We didn't disqualify Hillary Clinton to be President of the United States the facts of her life and career disqualify her.
president limits firsts
President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election. David Brooks
president mouths matter
When you have bacon in your mouth, it doesn't matter who's president. Louis C. K.
telling-the-truth mood foul
I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
telling-the-truth heart-is-a-lonely-hunter can-do
All we can do is go around telling the truth. Carson McCullers
telling-the-truth caution
It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it. Baltasar Gracian
telling-the-truth revolutionary truth-is
Telling the truth is always revolutionary Antonio Gramsci
telling-the-truth revolutionary truth-is
To tell the truth is revolutionary.
telling-the-truth
He who tells the truth says almost nothing. Antonio Porchia
telling-the-truth
Fear is a place where you just tell the truth Clive Barker
telling-the-truth realism socialist
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
telling-the-truth
I leave a lot out when I tell the truth Amy Hempel