Best choices & lying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”

Men Way Mean States Reason Lying Choices Concerned Excellence Determine Determined Practicals Relative Moral Excellence

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“The biggest lie in choosing is, "I can't." That is simply not true. We can do anything we want If we don't do something, it is because we have committed our time, energy and resources somewhere else.”

Ifs Want I Can Lying Choices Energy Can Do Resources Committed Our Time Somewhere Else

Author:Roger Delano Hinkins

“You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire.”

Lying Desire Choices Buddhism Fool Liberation Fulfillment Dharma Rationalize

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by choices made in the present.”

Made States Moments Lying Choices Existence Our Lives Quantum Awakened Choices Made

Book:The Isaiah Effect: Decoding the Lost Science of Prayer and Prophecy

Source: The Isaiah Effect: Decoding the Lost Science of Prayer and Prophecy

“If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts lie in comedy and so comedy comes fairly easy to me and I occasionally have an idea for a very serious piece and I do it, but the ideas don't come that readily to me.”

Ifs Ideas Lying Choices Easy Comedy Pieces Serious Life Choices Tennessee Eugene O Neill

Author:Woody Allen

“Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is ... death! Or the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement.The choice lies with you!”

“Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.”

Way Persons Sometimes Lying Choices Deny Helpful

Book:Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

“In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.”

Art Light Pain Lying Choices Dark Sacrifice Regret Cruelty Good And Bad Light And Dark Dark Art Chiaroscuro

Book:A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.”

Feels Doe Art Facts Lying Artist Choices Teach Fine Harmony

Author:Arthur Wesley Dow

“Beautiful Lies is a book every woman should read. Jennifer Strickland weaves the powerful story of her life throughout each chapter while emphasizing transformational truths from God's Word. Her vulnerability, exquisite writing style, and practical take-home applications make this book the ideal choice for personal or for small group use.”

“In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.”

World Form Lying Choices This World Expression Manners Mask Conventional Institute

Book:The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies

Source: The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies

“In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.”

People Done Enough Used Lying Desire Choices Left Secret Fiction Trouble Source Proud Exercise Cat Shame Silent Work Out Nine Curious Fascinated Listeners Undone Rough Times Avid Nine Lives

Author:Marge Piercy

“Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be.”

Light Lying Choices Darkness Possibility Available Sentient Beings

Author:Charles de Lint

“Therefore, be honest with yourself as to why you are choosing to do a particular thing. Then, do it gladly, knowing that you are always getting to do what you want. The statement "I have no choice" is a lie. You can choose. You simply do not prefer the alternatives available to you, for whatever reason. So you select the outcome that you most prefer.”

Want Reason Lying Choices Knowing Honest Particular Available What You Want Statements Alternatives Being Honest Outcomes Select Power Of Choice Choose Wisely Honest With Yourself Be Honest With Yourself

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.”

Ifs Made Said Film Lying Choices Shots Have Faith

Author:Ethan Hawke

“Even in an intensely mediated world, in a world that offers at least the illusion of radical self-invention and radical freedom of choice, I as a novelist am drawn to the things you can't get away from. Because much of the promise of radical self-invention, of defining yourself through this marvelous freedom of choice, it's just a lie. It's a lie that we all buy into, because it helps the economy run.”

World Self Helping Running Lying Choices Economy Promise Offers Illusion Invention Radical Novelists Get Away Marvelous Defining Freedom Of Choice Define Yourself

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“I spent years thinking I had to make a choice between being true to myself and being with a man and not having a family, and trying to live something of a lie and being with a woman and having children.”

Thinking Men Trying Years Children Lying Choices Being True Having Children True To Myself

Author:Andrew Solomon

“Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?”

People Ifs Want Important Stories Lying Choices Pay Attention Share Listening Proud Pay Attention Ashamed Rough Times

Author:Marge Piercy

“No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.”

Lying Choices Nations Our Future Geography

Author:Paul Keating

“So herein lies the choice for those of us who are Christians. We can either stay within the Christianity we have mastered with the Jesus we have domesticated, or we can leave Christianity as a destination, embrace Christianity as a way of life, and then journey to reality, where God is present and living in every person, every human community, and all creation.”

Way Humans Persons Reality Christian Lying Choices Jesus Community Christianity Journey Creation Embrace Destination

Book:It's Really All About God: How Islam, Atheism, and Judaism Made Me a Better Christian

Source: It's Really All About God: How Islam, Atheism, and Judaism Made Me a Better Christian

“Feminism wasn’t supposed to make us miserable. It was supposed to make us free; to give women the power to shape their fortunes and work for a more just world. Today, women have choices that their grandmothers could not have imagined. The challenge lies in recognizing that having choices carries the responsibility to make them wisely, striving not for perfection or the ephemeral all, but for lives and loves that matter.”

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