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lying hate people
Rebecca West 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.
lying book reading
Umberto Eco 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.
lying book reflection
Umberto Eco Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.
lying political hours
Willie Brown In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.
lying ideas choices
Woody Allen If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts lie in comedy and so comedy comes fairly easy to me and I occasionally have an idea for a very serious piece and I do it, but the ideas don't come that readily to me.
lying boys views
Woody Allen This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I always have, since I was a little boy. It hasn't gotten worse with age or anything. I do feel that it's a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience, and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself.
lying reality people
Woody Allen It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying to themselves than others. If you face reality too much, it kills you.... you've got to find an answer to the question: Why go on?
lying military criticism
William Westmoreland I don't take criticism lying down.
said wiser
Romy Schneider You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now.
said young
Truman Capote Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.
said
Sappho What cannot be said will be wept.
said heard knows
Richard M. Nixon I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.
said
William Carey The less said about me the better.
said fourth rounds
Zlatan Ibrahimovic I'm like Muhammed Ali. When he said he would knock someone out in the fourth round, he did it.
said horns jew
Jonathan Safran Foer Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns?
said
Mindy Kaling That's what she said.
said traps insincerity
Natalie Clifford Barney Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!
untrue
Maggie Stiefvater She couldn't make it untrue.