Best lying & used Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.”

“People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie!”

People Believe Used Lying Girl Black Raised Native Native American Something Better Eccentric Tell A Girl

Author:Chance the Rapper

“I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank, became a possession to me.”

Used Lying Feet Grew Draws Possession Grass Squares Blades Meadows

Author:John Ruskin

“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.”

Ifs Should Firsts Has Beens Ends Stories Used Lying My Own Written Subjects Wall Gun Concerned Crosses Chapters Hanging On

Author:Anton Chekhov

“People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must be anchored to something. People tend to view the prices they’re used to as normal and prices removed from these levels as aberrant. This perpective leads people to trade counter to an emerging trend on the assumption that prices will eventually return to “normal”. Therein lies the path to disaster.”

People Want Used Lying Levels Views Path Return Normal Trade Sells Notion Dear Disaster Assumption Trends Emerging Cheapness

Author:William Eckhardt

“Strength must build up, not destroy. It should outdo itself, not others who are weaker. Used without responsibility, it causes nothing but harm and death. I can lift the heaviest weights, but I can not take the responsibility off my shoulders. Because the way we use our strength defines our fate. What traces will I leave on my path into the future? Do we really have to kill in order to live? My true strength lies in not seeing weakness as weakness. My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.”

Way Needs Should I Can Use Used Lying Order Causes Responsibility Compassion Path Fate Seeing Weakness Weight Victim Harm Shoulders Lifts Can Not True Strength

Author:Patrik Baboumian

“My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").”

Used Lying Father Wonder Politician Contempt Lifelong

Author:Gore Vidal

“The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.”

Firsts Used Lying Simple Air Changed Truth Is Thousand Edges Complicated Fabric Wraps Simple Truths Lies Truth Quills Micah

Book:Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.”

Used Lying

Book:Foundation's Edge

Source: Foundation's Edge

“There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.”

Way Used Lying Language Audience Obvious Manipulate

Book:Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition

Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition

“So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.”

Used Lying Night Silence Listening Noise Awake Awake At Night

Author:Muriel Spark

“Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well.”

Source: Steering the craft: exercises and discussions on story writing for the lone navigator or the mutinous crew

“I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.”

Children Used Lying Wall Terror Entertainment Stores Awake Toys Blank Furniture

Book:The Yellow Wall-paper

Source: The Yellow Wall-paper

“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.”

“Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!”

Moving Used Lying Saws Team Legs Chickens Tied Wagons

Book:Lost Ecstasy

Source: Lost Ecstasy

“Conversation is the wall we build between ourselves and other people, too often with tired words like used and broken bottles which, catching the sunlight as they lie embedded in the wall, are mistaken for jewels.”

People Used Lying Broken Wall Conversation Tired Bottles Sunlight Mistaken Jewels Catching Embedded

Book:Faces in the water

Source: Faces in the water

“Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.”

World Firsts May Book Matter Used Lying Solace

Book:The Master's Violin

Source: The Master's Violin

“A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.”

Men Faces Used Lying Failing Honesty Faults Revolutionary Traitor Treachery

Author:Ashraf Dehghani

“It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or the 'good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.”

Children Home Earth Used Lying Mother Girl Stuff Horrible Used To Be Pie Baking Good Girl Good Mother Bad Girl Bad Mother

Author:Annette Bening

“As an American I must say I haven't been very encouraged by the way in which the people who run the government in the United States have been listening to those contrary voices. And so long as the power to run the world lies in the hands of people who are quite happy to see it get warmer, or fuel be used more, then would those people who oppose it are crying in the wilderness - that's the real problem.”

People World Way Long Has Beens Real States Problem Hands Government Running Used Lying Voice United United States Havens Cry Listening Contrary Fuel Wilderness Real Problems

Author:Richard Lewontin

“I definitely used to lie about my age. I'm from Tennessee and everyone would vacation in Destin, Florida, where there are lots of cute guys. I would go with my older sister and lie about my age to them.”

Age Used Lying Guy Cute Vacation Florida Tennessee Older Sister Cute Guy

Author:Lucy Hale

“The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!”

World Used Lying Bored Drowning Weirdness

Author:Inio Asano

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