Quotes about lying
lying pay living-a-lie
There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie. Cornel West
lying animal blow
Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that men wish to be serious but they do not understand how to be so. Between their acts and their ceremonies lies the world and in this world the storms blow and the trees twist in the wind and all the animals that God has made go to and fro yet this world men do not see. They see the acts of their own hands or they see that which they name and call out to one another but the world between is invisible to them Cormac McCarthy
lying book men
Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of rock. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things. The squatters in their rags nodded among themselves and were soon reckoning him correct, this man of learning, in all his speculations, and this the judge encouraged until they were right proselytes of the new order whereupon he laughed at them for fools.
lying book years
Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at the lies arranged in their thousands row on row. He picked up one of the books and thumbed through the heavy bloated pages. He'd not have thought the value of the smallest thing predicated on a world to come. It surprised him. That the space which these things occupied was itself an expectation.
lying sleep men
The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.
lying moving thinking
I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.
lying dying
Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.
lying intelligent self
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone. Colm Toibin
lying
The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth. Colum McCann
lying inspiration ocean
Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge. What turns the gears in our brains isn't information, but ideas, inventions, and inspiration. Knowledge-not information-implies understanding. And beyond knowledge lies what we should be seeking: wisdom. Clifford Stoll
lying deceit train
I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off. Clifford Irving
lying believe passion
When a woman is frozen of feeling, when she can no longer feel herself, when her blood, her passion, no longer reach the extremities of her psyche, when she is desperate; then a fantasy life is far more pleasurable than anything else she can set her sights upon. Her little match lights, because they have no wood to burn, instead burn up the psyche as though it were a big dry log. The psyche begins to play tricks on itself; it lives now in the fantasy fire of all yearning fulfilled. This kind of fantasizing is like a lie: If you tell it often enough, you begin to believe it. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
lying long waiting
All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.
lying white house
A group of psychologists say they have discovered twenty-three different body language indicators that show whether or not a person is lying. If you would like to see all twenty-three at the same time, they recommend taking a guided tour of the White House Conan O'Brien
lying nbc-news scandal
Despite the Brian Williams lying scandal, NBC News led in the ratings last week. Although I should note the figures were reported by Brian Williams.
lying deceit printed
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. E. W. Howe
lying sin multitudes
Lying covers a multitude of sins - temporarily. Dwight L. Moody
lying white black
We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies and business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard.
lying done world
For want of me the world's course will not fail;When all its work is done the lie shall rot;The truth is great and shall prevailWhen none cares whether it prevail or not. Coventry Patmore
lying presses ifs
If you (the press) lie about us, I will hit you, Kurt will shoot you, and we both will sue. Courtney Love
lying would-be ifs
And if that isnt the truth, it would be a lie. Colin Mochrie
lying home men
When a man lies he murders some part of the world These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives All this i cannot bear to witness any longer Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home James Hetfield
lying years lasts
I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard. Louis C. K.
lying stories
The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell. Orson Scott Card
lying enders-game sometimes
Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
lying boys men
I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la... Paul Simon
lying rain good-day
She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been
lying believe stories
But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.
lying heart cutting
Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.
lying weight triumph
THERE WILL COME A DAY WHEN ALL THE LIES WILL COLLAPSE UNDER THEIR OWN WEIGHT, AND THE TRUTH WILL TRIUMPH AGAIN Joseph Goebbels
lying people internet
Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are. Kurt Vonnegut
lying owl bells
Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry William Shakespeare
lying men done
Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.