Lying Quotes - Page 159

True success lies in knowing your weaknesses and playing to your strengths

Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We are insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a new preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object.

The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.

Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.

Why do people who like to get up early look with disdain on those who like to lie in bed late? And why do people who like to work feel superior to those who prefer to dream?

The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.

Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.

Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.

When one is under pressure, one may lie in order to protect the religion, this is taught in the Qur'an.

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

Sometimes you have to lie to tell the truth.

Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. While I have life, as long as I draw breath, I shall deny with all my strength, and hate with every drop of my blood, this infinite lie.

He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes have been made - one by himself, and the other, by the people.

Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet. Making contact with this Wild Man is the step the Eighties male or the Nineties male has yet to take. That bucketing-out process has yet to begin in our contemporary culture.

Everybody lies about sex.

I work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I'm lying.

It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual carping care is foreign. Therefore he loves the attack and the bold sacrifice; for theirin lies the shortest way to his ultimate objective.

The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.

A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

WOMEN lie about sex. It doesn't matter how many partners she says she's had before you. She's lying.

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

...visual truth lies in the structure of light.