Lying Quotes - Page 194

The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.

What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? ... Therein lies the mystery of eroticism.

We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6

The sun in your eyes makes some of the lies worth believing.

When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it seriously.

One can lie, but truth is more interesting.

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

How lucious lies the pea within the pod.

Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies.

The earth is soaked and soggy with rain. Everything is drinking its fill and the surplus gluts the drains. The sky is full of it and lies low over the earth, heavy and dense. Even the sea is wetter than usual!

I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.

There's a plane flying over me and I'm looking forward to being able to relax and not worry about the weather or boat speed.

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere.

All the things that are negative in me as a person - the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain - are like a gift from God in a performer. If you don't hide them and if you stop lying to yourself about what you are and are not, there is a ring or a tent or a stage where you can take them and use them to make something beautiful.

I was surprised by the level of sophistication of the Special Operation forces. Among them were anthropologists and PhD candidates. I felt because I understand the patterns of nineteenth-century jihad in West Africa that I was definitely going to be more advanced than they were in comprehending what the militant rallying cry was.

You cannot rationalize what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called truthization. There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.

The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot be owing to the stars themselves, separately considered. The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary occasions to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort of infinity.