Lying Quotes
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Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.
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God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder it alone has to offer but also because it needs our love. For with sad eyes its delectable creatures look up and beg us dumbly to ask them to follow. They are exiles who long for a future that lies in our power.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.
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Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form
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However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.
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I do not have a child and all allegations saying so are false.
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I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation
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I can't stand by and allow tens of thousands of innocent people to be slaughtered for lies.
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This soft grass suggests 'softness' to me, but also at the same time 'lying-down-ness'.
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They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.
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Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true. And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.
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Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.
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One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.
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Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.
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It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became man; Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the incarnation.
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Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.
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To declare in St John's words that Jesus and the Father are one is to claim that Jesus's dependence on the Other is not self-estrangement but self-ful lment. At the core of his identity ..lies nothing but unconditional love.
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Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!
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To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.
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Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!
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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.
