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“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.”

“Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.”

Young Lying Hundred Solitary Toads Young Ones

Book:Lectures on Art, and Poems

Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems

“I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that.”

“How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.”

Ifs Lying Belief Mankind Hundred Credit Superstitions

Book:Ricordi

Source: Ricordi

“Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two”

Two Eye Lying Thousand Eternal Hundred Infinite Myth

Author:Devdutt Pattanaik

“Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphsof psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.”

Men Humans Mean War Lying Social Feet Human Nature Crime Hundred Every Man Chains Domination Psychiatry Social Service

Author:Johan Huizinga

“One man affirms that he has rode post a hundred miles in six hours; probably it is a lie; but supposing it to be true, what then? Why, he is a very good post-boy; that is all. Another asserts, and probably not without oaths, that he has drunk six or eight bottles of wine at a sitting; out of charity I will believe him a liar; for if I do not, I must think him a beast.”

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is often fanned only by the land and sea breezes, and is like a smooth bed, on which these islands seem to sleep in bliss,--islands in which the spice and perfume gardens of the world are embowered, and where the bird of paradise has its home, and the golden pheasant, and a hundred others of brilliant plumage, whose flight is among thickets so luxuriant, and scenery so picturesque, that European strangers find there the fairy land of their youthful dreams.”

“Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country - to clear the air of the racial mirages, cliches, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.”

Men Years Has Beens Country Whole Lying Black White Clear Four Air Needed Hundred Filled Naked Atmosphere White Man Cliche Mirages

Author:Alex Haley

“There is no question that a very large number of people have to move; you cannot live where the water comes over you. I have not heard one suggestion on how we are going to move one hundred million people out of low-lying areas and what countries would be willing to accept them.”

People Country Would Be Moving Lying Water Numbers Accepting Millions Heard Willing Lows Hundred Areas Over You Suggestions Large Numbers

Author:Walter Munk

“If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger is always lying in wait for the fields of thought, which, by the labour of three hundred years, have been cleared and brought into cultivation by men of science. The destruction of a very small percentage of the population would suffice to annihilate scientific knowledge, and lead us back to almost universal belief in magic, witchcraft and astrology.”

“I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of the front door; and all that was left of the mobscene was the head of a whacking big fish, lying on the carpet and staring up at me in a rather austere sort of way, as if it wanted a written explanation and apology.”

Ifs Way Bigs Wanted Past Lying Left Rooms Written Doors Middle Fronts Hundred Shots Cat Size Fishes Staring Explanation Colour Apology Flash Fifteen Carpet Momentary Front Doors Big Fish

Book:Expecting Jeeves

Source: Expecting Jeeves

“I submit that Zooey's face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of glibly undaunted and usually specious evaluations that any legitimate art object is. I think it just remains to be said that any one of a hundred everyday menaces — a car accident, a head cold, a lie before breakfast — could have disfigured or coarsened his bounteous good looks in a day or a second.”

“I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.”

Years I Can Shows Body Lying Night Dies Enemy Cutting Blood Drink Hundred Rivers Hunger Ice Bites Thirst Show Me After Death Freeze

Book:The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian

Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian

“Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them.They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country.”

Knows Way Trying Humans Looks Country Done Lying Next Brother Hundred Chickens Rebel Cynical Organs Pale Cages Wire Hens Delhi Mesh Roosters

Author:Aravind Adiga

“I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest." His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me. Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.”

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“Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.”

Years Lying Hundred Delirium

Author:Lauren Oliver

“V jerked back to the present. And for some reason didn't lie. "I'm thinking about my tattoos." "When did you get them?" "Almost three centuries ago." She whistled. "God, you live that long?" "Longer. Assuming I don't get cracked dead in a fight and you fool humans don't blow up the planet, I'll be breathing for another seven hundred years.”

Thinking Years Humans Long Reason Lying Fighting Three Century Planets Fool Hundred Assuming Seven Blow Breathing Tattoo Cracked Vishous Lover Unbound

Author:J.R. Ward

“They say that the cure for love will make me happy and safe forever. And I’ve always believed them. Until now. Now everything has changed. Now, I’d rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie”

Years Lying Forever Changed Safe Hundred Cures Make Me Happy

Author:Lauren Oliver

“I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart - so hard, it hurt me. A hundred times I almost rose, almost went in to her; a hundred times I thought, Go to her! Why are you waiting? Go back to her side! But every time, I thought of what would happen if I did. I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.”

Ifs Heart Hard Happens Lying Felt Waiting Sides Hurt My Heart Kissing Mouths Hundred Breaths Rose Thread It Hurts Hurt Me Tugging

Book:Fingersmith

Source: Fingersmith

“Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.”

Years Two Lying Dies Knowing Hundred Twenties Safety Deceit Sheep Fence Cages Twenty Two Knowing The Truth

Book:Shadowfever: Fever Series

Source: Shadowfever: Fever Series

“When a man is ill,he has only one wish -to gain health,and when he does -then come a hundred wishes and he turns even unhappier than when he was lying sick in bed”

Men Doe Lying Turns Wish Bed Hundred Gains Sick Ill

Author:Alija Izetbegovic

“Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about all the dumb things I do every day... If I live to be eighty and I do ten dumb things each day... That would be about two hundred and ninety thousand dumb things... When you add up all the dumb things you do, it's best to use round figures.”

Ifs Thinking Two Sometimes Use Would Be Lying Night Figures Thousand Ten Hundred Add Rounds Dumb Awake Each Day Ninety Eighty Awake At Night Dumb Things Night Thinking

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“I told myself it was the snow—she couldn’t possibly get to Philadelphia on the roads. I told myself a hundred lies. Children do that. It’s amazing the sorts of things you’ll make yourself believe.”

Believe Children Lying Hundred Snow Philadelphia

Author:Libba Bray

“By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.”