Lying Quotes - Page 262

Maybe I'm just flying my own little ego ship, but sometimes people resent talent.

When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.

Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn't take any word literally, else the world becomes a madhouse.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

It's kind of strange-- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it.

But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.

The next time you see John Stossel or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, these flat-Earthers, these corporate toadies, lying to you, lying to the American public, and telling you that global warming doesn't exist. You send an e-mail to their advertisers and tell them that you're not going to buy their products anymore.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

To stretch the truth is to tell a lie.

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

What is your assurance of salvation? The promise of God's Word. If God says it, that settles it, because God cannot lie. You can trust the promise of God's Word.

We can’t make a portal—” “We’ve got a flying boat,” Carter offered.

Those who say "it's not personal, it's just business" are lying. All business is personal, and the best business is very personal.

How do you know if a demon is lying? His lips are moving.

[Fritz Haber's] greatness lies in his scientific ideas and in the depth of his searching. The thought, the plan, and the process are more important to him than the completion. The creative process gives him more pleasure than the yield, the finished piece. Success is immaterial. "Doing it was wonderful." His work is nearly always uneconomical, with the wastefulness of the rich.

The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.

I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but whether it's going on or not.

Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying.