Lying Quotes
The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God.
I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.
the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.
My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.
Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.
Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself
In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.
It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.
Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.
There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had allowed myself to pay attention to them.
I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.
Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true.
Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.
He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
Within us lies the peace, the beauty, the glory of our being. There is an ocean of all that. We cannot seek it outside, we have to go within.
Reagan's genius as a communicator lies in his use of ambiguity. ... Ambiguity is the mother of Teflon.
Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't.
That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.
No one is alone during tribulations - there's always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way. This thought gives us strength to face the challenge that lies in front of us.
The idea that we need to “pay our dues” is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.
There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.
Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance.
But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.
. . . the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children - lies somewhere a close kin to the crime of destroying human life and certainly to be condemned.
Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient economy, not the power of capital. There is nothing else to it.
A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.
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I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.
