Quotes by Lying It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. Adrian Rogers succeedtruthlying If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren’t reasons behind the terrible things that go on. I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help? I lie awake and wonder why I don’t have parents and wonder what will become of my brother and me. But when the morning comes, I realize that there’s nothing to be done about what has already happened. I can only get up and do my chores and push through the day and find the good in it. Adriana Trigiani brothermorninglying Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable. Adrienne Rich lettersmemorieslying In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the Adrienne Rich powerfulsecretlying The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence. Adrienne Rich grandchildrenmemorieslying The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious. Adrienne Rich silenceliarslying The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness. Adrienne Rich lonelinessliarslying How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying. To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention. Adrienne Rich intelligentlyingthinking Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be. Adrienne Rich oughtliarslying We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie. Adrienne Rich politicalmenlying If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind. The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond—awake and present, here and now already. I am simply helping you to realize that. Adyashanti missingmindlying The difference lies in the intention behind wanting money. Your reasons for why you want to create more money is typically why you're ambitious to get it. You're either genuinely ambitious or selfishly hungry. Aeriel Miranda ambitiousdifferenceslying Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears. Aeschines rumoursearslying There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie. Aeschylus be-kindliteraturelying Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence. Aeschylus tyrantsexcellencelying Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths. Aeschylus truthmenlying It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble. Aeschylus homemenlying I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths. Aeschylus unjustwinninglying For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word. Aeschylus lipstruthlying Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it. Aesop goldgrievinglying«345678910111213»
