Tell me Zach. ” I don’t know if it was the wind or the adrenaline, but I shivered. “And don’t lie to me.
There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.
The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.
If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and think about that little red-haired girl. . . I don't ever want to forget her face, but if I don't forget her face, I'll go crazy. . . How can I remember the face I can't forget? Suddenly I'm writing country western music!
An excuse is a lie guarded.
But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.
Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.
I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I go berserk just forcing myself not to go berserk, just trying to see truth in the lie, to see it in full context, and in a dimension in which it has got to be more than just a lie, possibly the profoundest kind of truth.
But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!
In Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts.
The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.
That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.
It is a lie that to talk to Hispanics you have to talk about amnesty. Let me tell you, the only Hispanics that are in favor of amnesty are the illegals.
All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.
A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly
Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.
[W]e have more than two options. . . a critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power. . . . [O]ur problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.
There is one grand lie - that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe.