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lying
I'd be lying to you if I said that it's just another game. It really isn't. Ebenezer Ekuban
lying
I'd be lying if I said this wasn't a blow. Andy Pettitte
lying moving hunting
As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity. Richard Page
lying teaching views
The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off chance that it is in another direction — a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory — who will find it? Only someone who has sacrificed himself by teaching himself quantum electrodynamics from a peculiar and unfashionable point of view; one that he may have to invent for himself. Richard P. Feynman
lying intellectual quests
Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties. Richard Hofstadter
lying skills ideas
To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes.
lying hate people
There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition. Rebecca West
lying philosophy want
As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying. Umberto Eco
lying book reading
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
mirrors taste television
For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it. Russell Lynes
mirrors use may
Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action. Virginia Woolf
mirrors hands lost
What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself. Wes Anderson
mirrors problem ifs
If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society. Vinton Cerf
mirrors saws earth
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me. Jorge Luis Borges
mirrors islands focus
The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our sense of being beleaguered, neglected and misunderstood. Jonathan Raban
mirrors looks knows
You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is. John Green
mirrors needs faces
Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces. Carolyn Kizer
mirrors worry actors
The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation. Moby
water too-late next
The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me. Rick Riordan
water octavian tempting
Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.
water body made
The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed cleanthrough her body as if she were made of water. HISSS!
water tree waste
We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form. William McDonough
water flow body
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions. Sappho
water tears towers
If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is. Rebecca Stead
water three dry
Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food. Satish Kumar
water environmental degradation
In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families. Wangari Maathai
water trying breathe
If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink. Robin McKinley