Best crosses & lying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.”

Ifs Should Firsts Has Beens Ends Stories Used Lying My Own Written Subjects Wall Gun Concerned Crosses Chapters Hanging On

Author:Anton Chekhov

“All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.”

Firsts Has Beens Art Lying Art Is Crosses Males Works Of Art Strokes Erotic Penetrate Ornaments Vertical Horizontal Lying Down

Author:Adolf Loos

“IN MEMORIAM: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE She whom we love, our Lady of Compassion, Can never die, for Love forbids her death. Love has bent down in his old kindly fashion, And breathed upon her his immortal breath. On wounded soldiers, in their anguish lying, Her gentle spirit shall descend like rain. Where the white flag with the red cross is flying, There shall she dwell, the vanquisher of pain.”

Source: Summer of Love

“Personal power is the ability to go into other planes, to cross that threshold from one dimension to another. Why do that? Because it is there to do; knowledge, power, and beauty lie in those other worlds.”

World Lying Ability Power Crosses Planes Dimensions Other Worlds Threshold Personal Power Power Of Knowledge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the populace - or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose "soul is marching on," though his "body lies mouldering in the grave," or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who "gave himself for the world," - in defence of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!"”

Men World Soul Body Lying Voice Cry Crosses Graves Minorities Stakes Ashes Multitudes Defence Fanatics Madmen Heretic Infidel Branded Gallows Marching On Herod

Author:William Lloyd Garrison

“I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour. I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and my ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire, the perfect contradiction to my once anticipated poignant early demise.”

“Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.”

Lying Sides Terrible Ocean Crosses

Book:Pump Six and Other Stories

Source: Pump Six and Other Stories

“I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.”

Men Mean Two Shows Lying Crosses

Author:Jim Elliot

“Christendom never came from an unbroken grave. It would have been buried in that grave, as Judas thought it was going to be, and as the Jews thought it was going to be, except there had been a resurrection from the dead. Then you can explain Christendom, churches, and literatures, if Christ rose again; but otherwise they cannot be explained at all. Our whole civilization rests on the broken Cross of the Master, and it is incredible that a civilization like this, in a world advancing steadily for eighteen centuries, has been founded on a lie.”

“If in our hearts we really don't believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.”

Ifs Believe Heart Stills Lying Can Do Messages Crosses Don't Believe God Love Can Do Something Rejecting Tainted God Loves Us

Book:The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

“When God's children pass under the shadow of the cross of Calvary, they know that through that shadow lies their passage to the great white throne. For them Gethsemane is as paradise. God fills it with sacred presences; its solemn silence is broken by the music of tender promises, its awful darkness softened and brightened by the sunlight of Heavenly faces and the music of angel wings.”

“Spirituality lies not in the power to heal others, to perform miracles, or to astound the world with our wisdom, but in the ability to endure with right attitude whatever crosses we have to face in our daily lives, and thus to rise above them.”

World Wisdom Faces Lying Spirituality Ability Healing Attitude Power Crosses Miracle Endure Heal Daily Life Rise Above

Author:Daya Mata

“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.”

World Needs Two Soul Lying Loses Talent Crosses Wake Up Your Soul Vocation Wake Up Call

Author:Aristotle

“The answer to the problem of evil does not lie in trying to establish its point of origin, for that is simply not revealed to us. Rather, in the moment of the cross, it becomes clear that evil is utterly subverted for good.... If God can take the greatest of evils and turn them for the greatest of goods, then how much more can he take the lesser evils which litter human history, from individual tragedies to international disasters, and turn them to his good purpose as well.”

Ifs Trying Humans Wells Doe Moments Problem Lying Purpose Turns Evil Individual Answers Clear Crosses Tragedy International Disaster Goods Human History Lesser Evil Problem Of Evil

Author:Carl R Trueman

“This is the deadening consensus that crosses party lines, that dominates our major media, and that is strangling the liberty and prosperity that were once the birthright of Americans. Dissenters who tell their fellow citizens what is really going on are subject to smear campaigns that, like clockwork, are aimed at the political heretic. Truth is treason in the empire of lies.”

Political Lying Lines Party Liberty Subjects Media Citizens Truth Is Majors Crosses Fellows Prosperity Campaigns Empires Consensus Treason Birthright Heretic Clockwork Strangling Smear Campaigns

Author:Ron Paul

“The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.”

Art Lying Building Crosses Tragedy Boxes Architecture Buried Concrete Candy Marble

Book:On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

Source: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

“The ultimate power of a successful general staff lies, not in the brilliance of its individual members, but in the cross-fertilisation of its collective abilities.”

Inspirational Lying Individual Ability Successful Members Crosses Ultimate Collectives Staff Brilliance Ultimate Power

Author:Reg Revans

“Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said, there lies convention and tradition and order, where all is correct. But on the other side of that sword, if you're crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, "all is confusion." Nothing follows a regular course. Her argument was that the crossing of the shadow of that sword may bring a more interesting existence to a woman, but you can bet it will be more perilous.”

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life -- and herein lies its secret -- takes place in the immediate proximity of that border, even in direct contact with it; it is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch.”

Humans Littles Persons Lying Loses Secret Crosses Direct Conviction Miles Contact Human Life Borders Inches Fractions Miles Away Proximity

Author:Milan Kundera

“Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense”

Men Matter Lying Universe Winning Struggle Changed Goes On Cold Eternal Crosses Offense Vigilance Eternal Vigilance

Book:Wicked

Source: Wicked

“Lucas had told me only one lie, ever; he kept the secret of black Cross because it wasn’t his secret to tell. In every other way, he’d been honest with me and shared the hard truths nobody else thought I deserved to hear.”

Way Hard Lying Black Secret Honest Crosses Hard Truths

Author:Claudia Gray

“We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unaswered. I shall send him poems and he will perhaps reply with a picture post card. But it is for that that I love him. I shall propose a meeting - under a clock, by some Cross; and shall wait and he will not come. It is for that that I love him.”

Said Lying Waiting Forget Dog Gun Crosses Letters Meetings Boxes Cards Posts Clock Hats Propose I Love Him Cab Forget Me

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you”

May Made Lying Behinds Steps Childhood Crosses Opposites Woods Teenager Bridges Shore Adulthood Behind You

Book:Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly

Source: Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly

“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.”

“I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.”

Thinking Knows Lying Four Dog Crosses Mood Faithful Concentrating Faithful Dogs

Author:Mark Haddon

“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.”

World Inspirational Needs Lying Work Business Talent Crosses Vocation

Author:Aristotle

“Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted you to write. Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before. Other people’s words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you’re going.”

People Writing Important Use Lying Novel Written Crosses Bridges Excitement Warning

Author:Zadie Smith

“And if he is lying and he double-crosses you, I’ll kill him for you.” From anyone else, it would have been an idle threat, and I smiled, feeling loved. (Ivy and Rachel)”

Ifs Has Beens Feelings Lying Crosses Threat Idle Ivy

Author:Kim Harrison

“Perhaps I will die too, she told herself, and the thought did not seem so terrible to her. If she flung herself from the window, she could put an end to her suffering, and in the years to come the singers would write songs of her grief. Her body would lie on the stones below, broken and innocent, shaming all those who had betrayed her. Sansa went so far as to cross the bedchamber and throw open the shutters ... but then her courage left her, and she ran back to her bed, sobbing.”

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it." "You're a hard person to comfort," Augustus said. "Easy comfort isn't comforting," I said.”

Knows Persons Said Hard Beautiful Lying Easy Parent Comfort Crosses Arguing Buying Sentiments Fragile Comforting Pillow Augustus Rare Things

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me. And you are still with me. When I breathe, I will think of you, for without you I would have been dead years ago. When I wake up and when I sleep, when I lift up my hands to defend myself or when I lie down to die, you will be with me. You say we are born and born again. I say there is a river that divides the dead and the living. What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.”

“Of course, Mr. Hannity was outraged that any American would not cross her hand over her heart and repeat the hypocritical words, one nation. Whenever we come up on the Fourth of You Lie, I think of Frederick Douglas and his masterful oration, The meaning of the Fourth of July to the Negro. Pledge the flag? I think not!”

Thinking Heart Hands Lying Courses Nations Crosses Come Up Repeats Patriotism Flags Fourth July Pledge Hypocritical Outraged Frederick Douglas

Author:Julianne Malveaux

“Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would have the honor. In other words, something had to be in it for him. And thus he became the father of lies and selfishness. Taking up one's cross and following the Savior means overcoming selfishness; it is a commitment to serve others. Selfishness is one of the baser human traits, which must be subdued and overcome. We torture our souls when we focus on getting rather than giving.”

Giving Firsts Humans Mean Two Soul Lying Father Focus Plans Conditions Honor Commitment Crosses Overcoming Following Selfish Denial Selfishness Satan Torture Agency Savior Traits

Author:James E. Faust

“Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.”

Spiritual Lying Christ Sin Crosses Hatred Bottom Mortification Sins Not

Book:Mortification of Sin

Source: Mortification of Sin

“I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground - there is the possibility that in some way or another I may escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of the circle? No. Never! I'd die first!”

Way Giving Firsts May Mean Has Beens Truth Lying Dies Lines Behinds Possibility Wall Honor Draws Stones Crosses Prison Circles Reaching Thick Chalk Honor And Integrity Prison Walls Byu

Author:Karl G. Maeser

“Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.”

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