Lying Quotes - Page 74

The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men; that he rewarded the virtuous and punished the wicked, is gradually fading from the mind. We know that some of the worst men have what the world calls success. We know that some of the best men lie upon the straw of failure. We know that honesty goes hungry, while larceny sits at the banquet. We know that the vicious have every physical comfort, while the virtuous are often clad in rags.

She'd play around and tease me with her carefree devil eyes. She'd hold me close and kiss me, but her heart was full of lies.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie.

The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.

The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.

The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead... The past lies in flames.

Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.

Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.

Apply the way of karate to all things. Therein lies its beauty.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.

Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.

This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.

All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus making a video game of life and a false-reality composed of lies, what gets lost is a joyful obsession with the work we create from the purest of motives, a sheer joy in the act of creation itself that causes us to lose ourselves in something else, and in a way die to ourselves over the absolute love of a thing we are breathing into life.

The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no such antimony as between Good and Evil, but only balance between two extremes, each of which is evil when carried to excess, both of which give rise to evil if insufficient for equipoise.

In God's faithfulness lies eternal security.

In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.

All governments are lying cocksuckers.

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.