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“Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.”

“You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of shadow -- leaping at it, lying in wait for it to spring upon it, spreading faint snares for it of sense or sound: until, of a sudden, as if in a phantom forest, you hear it, see it flash among the branches, and scarcely knowing how, suddenly have it.”

Ifs Knows Sometimes Running Lying Names Waiting Sound Knowing Spring Shadow Ghost Forests Branches Flash Phantoms Snares Elude Elude You

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.”

Source: The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne: Written by Himself

“Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.”

Needs Feels Past Lying Language Sound Sweet Sick Idle Weary Fathom

Author:George du Maurier

“Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.”

Thinking Mind Book Stories Lying Enjoy Sound Sides Sleep Wife Bed Conscious Breathing Sensitive Luther Heartbeat

Book:Appointment in Samarra: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Appointment in Samarra: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is set the other way; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance; the legs shake with anger when all above us calm.”

Men Way Sometimes Matter Hard Shows Hands Together Lying Sound Wind Kings Members Evidence Calm Blow Legs Features Knees Shakes Fierce Alarms Countenance

Book:.) (1850).

Source: .) (1850).

“We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.”

Thinking Lying Sound Stranger Deception Telephones Amazement

Book:Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism

Source: Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism

“I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen.”

Knows Happens Lying Sound Best Place Presbyterians

Book:The Wednesday Wars

Source: The Wednesday Wars

“You have a life and there are these volumes on either side that go unvisited; some day soon as the world winds he will lie beneath what he now stands on, dead as those insects whose sound he no longer hears, and the grass will go on growing, wild and blind.”

World Lying Sound Sides Growing Wind Goes On Blind Grass Volume Insects

Book:Rabbit is Rich

Source: Rabbit is Rich

“Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means disturbance of orderly life and convenience in the present. So inaction will be advocated in the present even though it means deep trouble in the future. Here, at least equally with Communism, lies the threat to Capitalism. It is what causes men who know that things are going quite wrong to say that things are fundamentally sound.”

Ifs Knows Men Mean Long Running Political Lying Causes Sound Trouble Capitalism Capacity Salvation Threat Financial Communism Long Runs Convenience Inaction Orderly Disturbance

Book:The great crash, 1929

Source: The great crash, 1929

“All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.”

Writing Lying Sound Making Up

Author:Brian K. Vaughan

“Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.”

People Hard Remember Lying Sound Believable

Author:Paul Neilan