Lying Quotes - Page 224

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.

...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school.

I love all the '90s kind of grunge, and I love classic rock: That's where the spectrum lies.

You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting or lying with your legs curled up, your hand groping in the bowl, but you can see different worlds, far-off worlds that maybe never existed but still seem real. You run or sail or race in a sleigh--you're running away from someone, or you yourself have decided to attack--your heart thumps, life flies by, and it's wondrous: you can live as many different lives as there are books to read.

Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's radical essence is hidden here.

Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.

I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free—— The peacefulness is so big it dazes you, And it asks nothing, a name tag, a few trinkets. It is what the dead close on, finally; I imagine them Shutting their mouths on it, like a Communion tablet.

Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it

How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.

To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

Be the first to seize intersecting ground, that is ground which lies the intersections of borders or intersections of main thoroughfares of commerce and travel. Your occupation of it gives you access to all who border it and all who would covet it. On intersecting ground, if you establish alliances you are safe, if you lose alliances you are in peril.

... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.

The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think they're lying to make you feel better?' Amelia: 'Yeah...' The Doctor: 'Everything's going to be fine.

Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the line, the bounds of the possible have been pushed further and faster than ever before in history. We've seen near-exponential growth in ultimate human performance, which is both hyperbolic paradox and considerable mystery. Somehow, a generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible, not just raising the bar but often obliterating it altogether. And this brings up one final question: Where-if anywhere-do our actual limits lie?

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.

The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.

The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.