Quotes by Lying Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books. A. A. Gill kidsbooklying I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath. A. A. Gill beachfunnylying If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. A. A. Milne liarslifelying The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance. A. B. Simpson safeheartlying The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence. A. B. Simpson herocharacterlying The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action. A. C. Bradley tragedycharacterlying Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; A. E. Housman timelyingtravel White in the moon the long road lies. A. E. Housman moonwhitelying White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love. Still hangs the hedge without a gust, Still, still the shadows stay: My feet upon the moonlit dust Pursue the ceaseless way. The world is round, so travellers tell, And straight through reach the track, Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well, The way will guide one back. But ere the circle homeward hies Far, far must it remove: White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love. A. E. Housman moonfeetlying Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night. A. E. Housman motherlyingson Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts. A. E. Housman heartmorninglying Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young. A. E. Housman warlifelying All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever. A. E. Housman tiesloverslying Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine. A. E. Housman hopebelievelying Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride. A. E. Housman sleepnightlying The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone. A. E. Housman orionmidnightlying The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all. A. E. Waite secretlyingideas The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step. A. J. Jacobs babylyingthinking When something important is going on, silence is a lie. A. M. Rosenthal silencetruthlying Silence is a lie. Silence has a loud voice. It shouts, "Nothing important is happening - don't worry." So when something important IS going on, silence is a lie." A. M. Rosenthal loud-voicesworrylying1234567891011»
