Lying Quotes - Page 175

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the brain and said, lie down and masturbate one more time.

Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

I hid my love when young till I Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly; I hid my life to my despite Till I could not bear to look at light: I dare not gaze upon her face But left her memory in each place; Where'er I saw a wild flower lie I kissed and bade my love good-bye.

I long for scenes where man has never trod; A place where woman never smil'd or wept; There to abide with my creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept: Untroubling and untroubled where I lie; The grass below--above the vaulted sky.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.

Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

We're flying free like birds in the sky, because we're ALIVE.

When I'm not working, I am the laziest person. I can literally lie on a couch and watch television for 15 hours.

Only the two of us together flying high upon the wings of love.

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

There were once two sisters who were not afriad of the dark because the dark was full of the other's voice across the room, because even when the night was thick and starless they walked home together from the river seeing who could last the longest without turning on her flashlight, not afraid because sometimes in the pitch of night they'd lie on their backs in the middle of the path and look up until the stars came back and when they did, they'd reach their arms up to touch them and did.

Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.

I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.