Quotes about lying
lying math opportunity
Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky - but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all. Malcolm Gladwell
lying training first-impression
our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions.
lying deceit telling-the-truth
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. Malcolm Bradbury
lying past men
A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him. Malcolm Cowley
lying drinking infidelity
The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing. Malachy McCourt
lying nba bird
Larry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another Larry Bird. Magic Johnson
lying night pay
We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent. Maj Sjowall
lying responsibility past
If Holocaust happened, then those who bear the responsibility for it have to be punished, and not the Palestinians. Why isn't research into a deed that occurred 60 years ago permitted? After all, other historical occurrences, some of which lie several thousand years in the past, are open to research, and even the governments support this. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
lying creativity meditation
Transcendental Meditation opens the awareness to the infinite reservoir of energy, creativity, and intelligence that lies deep within everyone. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
lying roots trying
Problems are not solved on the level of problems. Analyzing a problem to find its solution is like trying to restore freshness to a leaf by treating the leaf itself, whereas the solution lies in watering the root.
lying ocean bridges
It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples. Mahatma Gandhi
lying real tests
The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.
lying mean men
It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.
lying struggle men
Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.
lying men self
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
lying heart greatest-fear
I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.
lying heart greatness
The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.
lying past goal
The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
lying india village
The future of India lies in its villages
lying missing secret
You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.
lying needs helping
I won't lie to you - it's better to have someone to help you. I need it. Gael Monfils
lying sick long
As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely. Gail Collins
lying people gaps
It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap. Gabrielle Zevin
lying ideas tables
The Pantechnicon stored and distributed a good deal of furniture as well. The very idea of a lady of good breeding visiting such a place. There would be tables lying about, on their sides, naked! Not to mention flaccid dirigibles! Alexia shuddered at the very idea. Gail Carriger
lying rivers imagination
This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever. Freya Stark
lying essence unseen
The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.
lying dark voice
The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.
lying journalism euphemism
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism. Fred W. Friendly
lying play old-friends
In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play. Fred Ward
lying kids two
Andy says, I don't understand how they can give loans to people who want to spend two weeks lying on the sand at the goddam Jersey shore and then turn down a woman with three kids hanging on by her fingernails. Frank McCourt
lying important clarity
You cannot lie ever, because a lie destroys the credibility of the product, and credibility is more important than anything. Credibility's even more important than clarity. Frank Luntz
lying boys thinking
Don't take this the wrong way," Blue replied. Her cheeks felt a little warm, but she was well into this conversation and she couldn't back down now. "Because I know you're going to think I feel bad about it, and I don't." "All right." "Because I'm not pretty. Not in the way Aglionby boys seem to lie." "I go to Aglionby," Adam said. Adam did not seem to go to Aglinoby like other boys went to Aglionby. "I think you're pretty," he said. Maggie Stiefvater
lying hands ceilings
I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling.