Best lying & looks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.”

Life Looks Littles Life Is Lying Waiting Obvious Mathematical Traps Wildness Exactitude

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I would care to call consciousness. But I am also confident [...] that vultures and sloths, as close evolutionary relatives with the same basic set of organs, lie on our side of any meaningful (and necessarily fuzzy) border and that we are therefore not mistaken when we look them in the eye and see a glimmer of emotional and conceptual affinity.”

Believe Looks Might Eye Care Lying Sides Consciousness Emotional Willing Meaningful Borders Seconds Organs Sixty Mistaken Sloth Affinity Sponges Fuzzy Vulture

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time , for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don't stop and interpret "I am free," then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before.”

Mind Looks Care Lying Realizing Memories Consciousness Gone Movement Fields Bondage

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Hollywood is a place where some people lie on the beach and look up at the stars, whereas other people lie on the stars and look down at the beach.”

People Looks Lying Stars Hollywood Beach Look Up People Lie

Author:Noel Coward

“This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look at the things, to record the details, and to hope that in the information thus obtained, may lie a clue to one or another of a possible theoretical interpretation.”

Looks May Ideas Lying Understanding Records Modern Information Keys Details Interpretation Clue Theoretical Modern Science True Understanding

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through.”

Source: Carlyle Reader

“Oh the grave!--the grave!--It buries every error--covers every defect--extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him!”

Feels Should Looks Earth Death Lying Poor Enemy Regret Spring Errors Graves Peaceful Resentment Defects Handful Bosoms Recollection

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)

“Much of the beauty of Christmas lies in its challenge to look further, deeper, until we find its secret in the heart of God. But we never find that unless we look beyond the presents under the tree.”

Looks Heart Lying Challenges Secret Tree Deeper Christmas

Book:A Happy Trails Christmas

Source: A Happy Trails Christmas

“When lying to someone, look him straight in the eye.”

Looks Eye Lying

Author:Mason Cooley

“Look, Here are we, On this starry night staring into space, And I must say, I feel as small as dust, Lying down here...”

Feels Looks Lying Night Space Dust Staring Lying Down Starry Night Staring Into Space

Author:Dave Matthews

“The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.”

Ifs Men Looks Littles Lying Girl Chance Rich Taste Husband Good Man Rich Man

Book:The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn

Source: The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn

“Seeing the play ( A Lie of the Mind ) clearly is part of why I wanted to direct it. I see hope at the end of this play. People talk about how dark the play was, but I feel like, if you really look at the darkness, you're able to go through it, and you realize that you can handle dark moments in life and that everything will be all right.”

People Ifs Feels Mind Looks Ends Play Moments Able Wanted Lying Realizing Dark Darkness Seeing Direct Handle Dark Moments

Author:Ethan Hawke

“Mr. Chairman, speaking for myself and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy that forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.”

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Author:Michael Mullen

“Antigun advocates have always faced an uphill battle in this country. Americans have, to begin with, a constitutional right to gun ownership. Today, half of American households exercise this right, owning a total of about 250 million guns; and over 99 percent of those households do so in a responsible manner. To fight for major restrictions on an item that plays such a valued part in the lives of so many people looks like a nearly impossible task. So if you're really committed to the effort, and you want to win, what do you do? Simple: You lie.”

“Little white lies are part of everyday life. If youre in court being charged with a felony, youre probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; youre going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; its human nature.”

Ifs Humans Looks Littles Persons Different Reason Lying Asks White Human Nature Court Everyday Fats Girlfriend Justification Everyday Life Tempted Sweaters Your Girlfriend Felony White Lie

Author:Monica Raymund

“I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.”

Looks Said Lying Perfect Glad

Book:The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes

Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes

“Tis aye a solemn thing to me To look upon a babe that sleeps-- Wearing in its spirit-deeps The unrevealed mystery Of its Adam's taint and woe, Which, when they revealed lie, Will not let it slumber so.”

Looks Spirit Lying Sleep Mystery Look Up Adam Woe Solemn Babe Infancy Slumber

Book:The Brownings' Correspondence: January 1838-December 1840, letters 602-783

Source: The Brownings' Correspondence: January 1838-December 1840, letters 602-783

“This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know?”

Knows Looks Long Lying Forty

Author:Gloria Steinem

“When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden evils.”

Source: Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift

“Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where graybeard mirth and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round.”

Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: with a biographical memoir of the author, written expressly for this edition

“Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.”

Men World Looks Self Lying Social Cities Flower Built Mark Wings Brave Cells Bees Hiv Hives Lying Men Cramps

Author:Philip James Bailey

“the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.”

Looks Book Lying Pleasure Possession Urges Print Stamps Collecting Offspring Trinkets Postage Postage Stamps

Author:Agnes Repplier

“It is, indeed, right that we should look for, and hasten, so far as in us lies, the coming of the day of God; but not that we should check any human effort by anticipations of its approach. We shall hasten it best by endeavoring to work out the tasks that are appointed for us here; and, therefore, reasoning as if the world were to continue under its existing dispensation, and the powers which have just been granted to us were to be continued through myriads of future ages.”

Ifs World Should Humans Looks Age Lying Effort Approach Tasks Work Out Checks Granted Reasoning Anticipation Millennium

Book:The Stones of Venice

Source: The Stones of Venice

“I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have not. I prefer to look outside myself if I possibly can, not inside. Meditation reminds me too forcibly of being made to lie on a mat at nursery school and take an hour's nap.”

Ifs Looks Made Self School Lying Found Hours Meditation Movement Oneness Can Not Congratulations Naps Nursery Lapses Nursery School

Author:Fay Weldon

“Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.”

“...through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted and unexplored, a world that lies waiting to be discovered and revealed.”

World Looks Light Eye Able Lying Waiting Photographer Unexplored Uncharted

Book:Edward Weston on photography

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“Why do people who like to get up early look with disdain on those who like to lie in bed late? And why do people who like to work feel superior to those who prefer to dream?”

People Feels Looks Dream Lying Bed Late Superiors Get Up Disdain Up Early

Book:How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening

Source: How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening

“At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.”

Ifs Knows Way Looks Care Lying Four Middle My Friends Caught Minors Who Cares Seventies Eighty Spectacular Rave Caught In The Middle

Book:Myself Among Others

Source: Myself Among Others

“Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year.”

Thinking Years Wells Looks Ends Matter Done Today Action Lying Certain Week Amount Each Day Accumulation Good Years

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.”

Men Looks Lying Ill Straws Lying Men

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“As things stand now the feudal lords are content to look on while the shogunate carries on in a highhanded manner. Neither the lords nor the shogun can be depended upon, and so our only hope lies in grass-roots heroes.”

Looks Lying Lord Hero Roots Grass Carrie Shoguns

Author:Yoshida Shoin

“There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.”

Wells Looks Lying Silence Deceiving

Book:The Accidence; or First rudiments of English grammar. Designed for the use of young ladies ... The third edition, with very considerable additions

Source: The Accidence; or First rudiments of English grammar. Designed for the use of young ladies ... The third edition, with very considerable additions

“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.”