Best lying & easy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.”

Men Lying Easy Difficult Path Journey Duty

Book:The works of mencius

Source: The works of mencius

“Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what lies in an easy view; place their desires afar off, carry their accomplishment behind the clouds out of their sight, interpose difficulties and perplexities -- their hearts are instantly sick. They cannot wait for God; they do not trust Him, nor ever did. Would you have the presence of God with you? Learn to wait quietly for the salvation you expect from Him.”

Men Heart Hands Lying Desire Easy Waiting Views Behinds Sick Sight Difficulty Salvation Clouds Possession Accomplishment Trust In God Presence Of God Afar Perplexity

Author:Owen Wilson

“The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely fragile and durable. Like 'Sumi' ink painting, it does not lend itself to erasures and indecision.”

Doe Lying Easy Difficult Painting Elements Attraction Mediums Contradiction Fragile Ink Indecision Ceramics Difficult And Easy

Author:Isamu Noguchi

“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one less traveled by - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”

“The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.”

Long Ends Lying Easy Progress Speed Disaster Smooth Silent Spring Fork In The Road Two Roads

Author:Rachel Carson

“You can say that designing is quite easy; the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty”

Way Lying Easy Design Findings Difficulty New Ways

Author:Yohji Yamamoto

“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

“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.”

Thinking World Trying Lying Culture Easy Answers Feminism Movement Intelligent Intention Deny Passive Fullness Degrade

Book:On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

“Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men.”

Source: Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name

“A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday's boredom. And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow.”

Ends Lying Easy Months Tomorrow Yesterday Boredom

Author:C.P. Cavafy

“When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.”

People Way Lying Evil Force Easy Loses Society Losing Standing Silent Oneself Obvious Senses Resistance Destroyed Repeats Liars Controlled Cooperation Resisting Erode Probity

Author:Theodore Dalrymple

“Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.”

Ifs Thinking Lying Easy Magic Talent Fool Profession Tricks Magician

Author:David Copperfield

“Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy. The just mean, which lies between the two extremes, is what I approve; I like neither that which tortures nor that which cloys.”

Mean Two Lying Desire Asks Easy Extremes Torture Dislike Maids Two Extremes

Book:The Epigrams of Martial

Source: The Epigrams of Martial

“The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.”

“The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the contrary, very ordinary ones. Charisma is easy; presence, self-remembering, is terribly difficult, and where the real work lies.”

Should Doe Real Self Remember Spiritual Lying Easy Difficult Goal Work Ordinary Tradition Contrary Vulnerability Openness Charisma Ascent Great Experiences Real Work

Author:Morris Berman

“Lysistrata: Oh, Calonicé, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly...Calonicé: And they are quite right, upon my word!Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the last importance, they lie abed instead of coming.Calonicé: Oh, they will come, my dear; but 'tis not easy you know, for a woman to leave the house. One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child asleep or washing the brat or feeding it.”

Knows Men Looks Heart Children Matter Lasts Lying House Sex Easy Fire My Heart Husband Thirds Importance Busy Dear Servant Feeding Tricky Washing X Men Sly Brat

Book:The Eleven Comedies

Source: The Eleven Comedies

“History has got a lot to do with unique circumstances under certain particular cases and grand theories will always find counter cases. I don't think that people whose expertise lies in one thing should try to make grand theories about something (a) where it's very hard to get the evidence to prove that you're right and (b) where it's much too easy to make up stories that seem right.”

People Thinking Should Trying Hard Stories Seems Lying Certain Easy Cases One Thing Particular Theory Circumstances Prove Unique Evidence Expertise

Author:Richard Lewontin

“If you really think that houses prices are going to go up next year and the year after, you feel if I don't buy it this year, I'm going to have to buy it next year. [...] And when somebody makes it very easy for you to do it by saying you don't really have to put up my money, you can lie about your income a little, or we'll give you 100 percent mortgage, you're going to do it, because everybody that's done it has been proven right. You have what they call social tools, and, you know, you're going to feel like an idiot if you didn't do it, because the house cost more.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Feels Years Littles Has Beens Done Lying Next House Social Easy Cost Percent Tools Income Idiot Proven Next Year Mortgage House Prices

Author:Howard Warren Buffett

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