Lying Quotes - Page 34

• As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Ocean, Alive, Earth

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• There are passages and doors And Realms that lie unseen. There are Roads both wide and narrow And no avenue between. Doors Remain closed for those Who in sad vanity yet hide. Yet when Belief is chosen, The key appears inside. What is lived now will soon pass, And what is not will come to Be. The Door Within must open, For one to truly see. Do you see? Believe and enter.

  Wayne Thomas Batson

  Believe, Keys, Vanity

  Wayne Thomas Batson (2013). “The Rise of the Wyrm Lord: The Door Within Trilogy - Book Two”, p.46, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Children, Home, School

  Henrik Ibsen (2016). “An Enemy of the People”, p.19, Henrik Ibsen

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• Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Reality, Air, Order

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• Chiron probably wanted me to say, Heck it wa nothing. I eat hellhounds for breakfast. But I didn't feel like lying.

  Rick Riordan

  Breakfast, Hellhounds, Feels

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

  E. M. Forster

  Suicide, Feelings, Crime

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.275, 谷月社

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• With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends

  Kathryn Stockett

  Honesty, Agreement, Hands

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.98, Penguin

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• How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who caused us pain all those years ago? It's the betrayal of this second heart of ours, its flesh tied off like a fingertip twined tightly round with a single hair, blue-tinged from lack of blood. The shameful squeeze of it.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Pain, Betrayal, Heart

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• I don't think most people take honest well. They prefer the games. They want to believe the pretty lies.

  Richelle Mead

  Believe, Thinking, Games

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.49, Zebra Books

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• So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Stars, Greatness

  Charles Dickens (2015). “A Tale of Two Cities: World Classics”, p.186, World Classic

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  Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Vices, Prejudice

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.43, My Ebook Publishing House

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• You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for the rain. You said they'd wait for years, if they had to; that they'd almost kill themselves before they grew again. But as soon as those first drops of water fall, those plants begin to stretch and spread their roots. They travel up through the soil and sand to reach the surface. There's a chance for them again.

  Lucy Christopher

  Rain, Fall, Years

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.255, Scholastic Inc.

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• Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Hurt, Adults, Sometimes

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.18, Macmillan

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• Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Mom, Believe, World

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.39, Delacorte Press

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• My negotiation skills are are on par with George Bush's reading ability. And just like Dubya, every time I've tried to put forth an effort, I am reminded that my only true strength lies in drinking.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Drinking, Reading

  Chelsea Handler (2008). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• Let's be clear on this, he growled. You have no idea how badly I want to be inside you. Standing up, lying down, taking you from behind. All of it. Right now. Not being able to do any of that is killing me. Literally. But strangely enough, I like just being with you. Touching you however I can, whenever I can. So no. The virginity thing is not what will keep us apart. ~Wraith

  Larissa Ione

  Ideas, Touching You, Want

  Larissa Ione (2009). “Passion Unleashed”, p.117, Hachette UK

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• We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.

  Ian Mcewan

  Self, Ice, White

  Ian McEwan (1998). “Amsterdam, Or, The Spoiler: A Comi-tragedy”, Vintage

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• It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You offered to cook." "Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your finger" "As you wish." He pressed the button. "But don't forget who cooked dinner.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Long, Wish, Stories

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.29, Penguin

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• A touch of truth makes a lie worth believing.

  Caitlin Kittredge

  Believe

  Caitlin Kittredge (2011). “The Iron Thorn The Iron Codex Book One”, p.161, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Raphael, tell him you won’t do anything to him if I get ‘damaged.’ ” “That would be a lie, Elena. I would tear out his throat.

  Nalini Singh

  Tears, Would Be, Raphael

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Archangel's Consort”, p.211, Penguin

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• I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, June, If There Is A God

  Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., July 2, 1945.

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• The house is made up of the spirits of our ancestors. Did you think they would lie idly by while we were under attack?" 'Cuz, yeah, didn't everybody's ancestors rise up and destroy enemies.

  Christine Feehan

  Thinking, House, Enemy

  Christine Feehan (2012). “Christine Feehan's Drake Sisters Series: Five Novels and a Novella”, p.1245, Penguin

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• The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think they're lying to make you feel better?' Amelia: 'Yeah...' The Doctor: 'Everything's going to be fine.

  Steven Moffat

  Feel Better, Thinking, Doctors

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• Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.

  John Muir

  Light, Ice, Purple

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.348, Library of America

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• But then there are the van Goghs and Hemingways and Mozarts, those who feel a hunger so deep, so far down, that greatness lies there too, nestled somewhere within it. Those who get their inner voice and direction from the cool mysterious insides of the moon, and not from the earth like the rest of us.

  Deb Caletti

  Moon, Greatness, Voice

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Wild Roses”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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