Lying Quotes (page 116)

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• lies
• people
• political

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics. Kim Stanley Robinson

• personal
• time
• lies

You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie. Herman Hesse

• lies
• gift
• excellence

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in itsvalue. Charles Dudley Warner

• beautiful
• beauty
• lies

...Our beauty lies in this extended capacity for convolution. Thomas Pynchon

• city
• sometimes
• walking

Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting. Sometimes you hear a distant refrain. What does it mean, you ask, who is singing? A childlike sun grows warm. A grandson and a great-grandson are born. You are led by the hand once again. The names of the rivers remain with you. How endless those rivers seem! Your fields lie fallow, The city towers are not as they... Czeslaw Milosz

• fire
• romantic
• black

Crimson flames tied through my ears. Rollin' high and mighty traps. Pounced with fire on flaming roads. Using ideas as my maps"We'll meet on edges, soon," said IProud 'neath heated brow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth"Rip down all hate," I screamed. Lies that life is black and white. Spoke from my skull. I dreamed. Romantic facts of musketeers. Foundationed deep, somehow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that... Bob Dylan

• saying
• relationship
• rich

The world is big but it is comprehensible," says R. Buckminster Fuller. But it seems to me that the world is not nearly big enough and that any portion of its surface, left unpaved and alive, is infinitely rich in details and relationships, in wonder, beauty, mystery comprehensible only in part. The very existence of existence is itself suggestive of the unknown - not a problem, but a mystery. We will never get to the bottom of it, never know the whole of even so small and trivial and... Edward Abbey

• lies
• waiting
• spring

There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything. Sylvia Day

• light
• lies
• night

Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because t'was night? William Shakespeare

• time
• lies
• color

What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color. Annie Dillard

• peace
• waves
• forgiveness

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde

• technology
• communication
• lies

Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation. Adolf Hitler

• depression
• bed
• autumn

The bleak autumn wind was still blowing, and the solemn, surging moan of it in the wood was dreary and awful to hear through the night silence. Issac felt strangely wakeful. He resolved, as he lay down in bed, to keep the candle alight until he began to grow sleepy; for there was something unendurably depressing in the bare idea of lying awake in the darkness, listening to the dismal, ceaseless moan of the wind in the wood. ("The Dream Woman") Wilkie Collins

• good
• lies
• doing good

One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it; Mark Twain

• lies
• old
• thirties

I'm thirty,", i said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honour". F. Scott Fitzgerald