Lying Quotes - Page 135

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death .

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a mile of me. What cared my owners for that? he was merely a piece of property. Moreover, they thought he had spoiled his children, by teaching them to feel that they were human beings. This was blasphemous doctrine for a slave to teach; presumptuous in him, and dangerous to the masters.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler.

I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time. You know, it's lie-around-the-bed time, it's sitting-like-a-dope-in-your-chair time. And that seems to me essential to any work.

Lying, like license, has its degrees.

The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth.

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

I don't know what lies ahead, but I want to keep going forever.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

Of course there's conscious manipulation! Everything about a movie is manipulation ... If you like it, it's an interpretation. If you don't like it, it's a lie - but everything about these movies is a distortion."

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.

Magic teaches us how to lie without guilt.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.

I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.

American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.