“So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body lies, Part of the island till the planet ends, My gentle comrade, beautiful and wise, Part of this crag this bitter surge offends, While I, who pass, a little obscure thing, War with this force, and breathe, and am its king.” LittlesWarEndsBodyBeautifulFormLyingForceMemoriesDarknessWiseRocksPlanetsKingsStriveBreatheYour BodyBitterGentleIslandsObscureStrifeComrade Book:Letters to Margaret Bridges (1915-1919) Source: Letters to Margaret Bridges (1915-1919)
“Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no skepticism, no atheism but that. Could it be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.” MenLastsLyingBeliefCommonAtheismPlanetsLoversPureSuicideEntertainmentEvery ManSkepticismPropositionsDepravityWarp Book:The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I've come to understand and to believe that each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. I believe that for every person on the planet. I think if somebody tells a lie, they're not just a liar. I think if somebody takes something that doesn't belong to them, they're not just a thief. I think even if you kill someone, you're not just a killer. And because of that, there's this basic human dignity that must be respected by law.” IfsThinkingBelieveHumansPersonsDoneLawLyingI BelieveWorstPlanetsDignityLiarsKillersThievesWorst ThingsHuman Dignity Author:Bryan Stevenson
“Do we know what practices would be effective in resisting aliens? Wouldn't the public have to be convinced, in all countries, that there is such a threat? When have the major nations on this planet shown they can agree on any military course of action? Earthlings are already spending a trillion dollars a year on things military. Where would the money come from? Krugman seems to be suggesting more lies are what is needed. How about everybody cutting their military budgets in half and feeding people instead?” PeopleKnowsYearsCountrySeemsWould BeActionLyingCoursesNationsHalfPracticeCuttingMilitaryPlanetsNeededMajorsAgreeDollarsThreatSpendingConvincedAliensBudgetsFeedingResistingSuggestingMilitary Budget Author:Stanton T. Friedman
“I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills, and thus do not say they know C++ when they are smart enough to realize that that would be a lie for all but perhaps 5 people on this planet.” PeopleKnowsMayEnoughWould BeLyingRealizingPlanetsSkillsSmartFemaleTendenciesProgrammersBiased Author:Erik Naggum
“I say you call yourself Goldstein, Silverstein, and Rubinstein because you're stealing all the gold and silver and rubies all over the earth - and it's true, because of your thieving and stealing and roguing, and lying all over the face of the planet earth.” EarthFacesLyingPlanetsGoldStealingSilverPlanet EarthRubiesGold And SilverSilverstein Author:Khalid Abdul Muhammad
“Because there are 7 billion 47 million people on the planet And I have the audacity to think I matter I know it's a lie but I prefer it to the alternative” PeopleThinkingKnowsMatterLyingMillionsPlanetsBillionsAlternativesAudacity Author:George Watsky
“Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.” HardHandsLyingVirtuePlanetsRoyalCunningCrookedCoarse Author:Thomas Carlyle
“Every great religion on the planet, regardless of what spiritual or cultural tradition from which it is that it emerges, announces and declares that spiritual mastery is an open possibility for every member of the human race. If that is not true, then the highest promise of God is a lie.” IfsHumansSpiritualLyingRacePossibilityPlanetsPromiseMembersHighestTraditionHuman RaceMastery Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“Now you comprehend your first and final lover / in the dark receding planets of his eyes, / and this is the hour when you know moreover / that the god you have loved always / will descend and lie with you in paradise.” KnowsFirstsEyeDeathLyingHoursDarkPlanetsLoversFinalsParadiseHis Eyes Author:Gwendolyn MacEwen
“We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies.” LittlesLyingBlackSpacePlanetsBlueMutualHungReassuranceBlue Planet Book:Rabbit at Rest Source: Rabbit at Rest