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Animals do not ‘give’ their life to us, as the sugar-coated lie would have it. No, we take their lives. They struggle and fight to the last breath, just as we would do if we were in their place.Collection: Lying
The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.Collection: Lying
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.Collection: Lying
My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she's as old as I am. Then she lies about my age.Collection: Lying
It's one thing to ask your bank manager for an overdraft to buy 500 begonias for the borders in Haslemere, but quite another to seek financial succour to avail oneself of the 5-2 they're offering on lie de Bourbon for the St Leger.Collection: Lying
It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the answer, but in the asking and answering themselves, over and over again, and the end is engendered in the beginning.Collection: Lying
How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie. How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?Collection: Lying
Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.Collection: Lying
Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One's Heimat is not merely a matter of geography; it is where one's heart lies.Collection: Lying
The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.Collection: Lying
Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.Collection: Lying
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.Collection: Lying
But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France-a part of me is broken off forever. A part of me will be unflyable, stuck in the climb.Collection: Lying
But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.Collection: Lying
Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.Collection: Lying
One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.Collection: Lying
But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don't line up anymore, and the lie is in that not lining up, the lie is in not being what she needs but pretending that he is. No one says a word, and she sees it every minute they have together.Collection: Lying
My ritual it's kind of an involuntary ritual. I lie awake the night before, worrying about award ceremony. Try and think of something to write in case I actually get up there. I write it at the very last minute like either in the car on the way to the ceremony or, you know, in the bathroom before the show starts. It's all of jumbled mess written on a napkin or a piece of toilet paper. That's my good luck ritual. It's just like being in college waiting for the last minute to do everything.Collection: Lying
There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.Collection: Lying
The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.Collection: Lying
Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever after, and the ending seemed indisputable, definitive. No questions asked about how long love or happiness lasts in that 'forever' that can be divided into lifetimes, years, months. Even daysCollection: Lying
So truth created the ultimate lie. Was this what the world was like for wizards? This thorny, gray tangle where right and wrong were so mixed there was no telling them apart?Collection: Lying
I never lie. I believe everything I say, so its not a lie.Collection: Lying
Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.Collection: Lying
The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22Collection: Lying
The trails of the world be countless, and most of the trails be tried; You tread on the heels of the many, till you come where the ways divide;And one lies safe in the sunlight, and the other is dreary and wan,But you look aslant at the Lone Trail, and the Lone Trail lures you on.Collection: Lying
I think one of the first steps - and I'm glad we were able to reach, again, a bipartisan agreement - is an accountability side. People are still shocked to find out that many of the same people that have been involved in really lying about the numbers in regards to wait time are still on the job. What we have done is we have come up with a crafted piece of bipartisanship that will, in fact, give the secretary the ability to fire those that have lied to him with an appeal process built in. I think that that will send a clear message to those who want to fudge the numbers.Collection: Lying
The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.Collection: Lying
Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?Collection: Lying
The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.Collection: Lying
Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.Collection: Lying
Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let alone the whole truth. Spoken words are facts in themselves, whether true or false. When people talk they reveal themselves, whether they're lying or telling the truth.Collection: Lying
You learn who your friends are when you find out who will lie for you.Collection: Lying
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.Collection: Lying
Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.Collection: Lying
Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness.Collection: Lying
Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to obscure no longer seem like offenses against nature.Collection: Lying
We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.Collection: Lying
Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you’re lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.Collection: Lying
The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.Collection: Lying
They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That’s my motto.Collection: Lying
Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the end of the hall is an unsociable, wrong-headed fellow working on unprofitable lines, and in his hands lies the hope of discovery.Collection: Lying
..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.Collection: Lying
To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.Collection: Lying
To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.Collection: Lying
I didn't have time to lose it. I didn't have time to lie down in the corner shop and scream and beat the floor until my hands bled. I didn't have time to miss Jack. Stroma kept on chattering away and getting excited over novelty spaghetti shapes and finding the joy in every little thing, and it occurred to me even then that she was probably looking after me, too.Collection: Lying
The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.Collection: Lying
Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.Collection: Lying