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“Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.”

People Way Would Be Lying Hurt Homosexual

“My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.”

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Author:Eric Stoltz

“I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to attain a professorship and a good life, but I live. And that gives me the tremendous feeling of happiness, as if one would hear music. One feels uprooted, because one asks, what lies ahead, what decisions should I make-but more alive, happier than those anchored in life. To drift with released anchor.”

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Author:Albert Schweitzer

“It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.”

People Would Be Joy Lying All Time Grieving Adoption Disingenuous

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.”

May Book Would Be Lying Reading Century Characteristics Blindness Twentieth Century Old Books

Author:C. S. Lewis

“We must remember that if all the manifestly good men were on one side and all the manifestly bad men on the other, there would be no danger of anyone, least of all the elect, being deceived by lying wonders. It is the good men, good once, we must hope good still, who are to do the work of Anti-Christ and so sadly to crucify the Lord afresh.... Bear in mind this feature of the last days, that this deceitfulness arises from good men being on the wrong side.”

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Book:Devotion to the Church

Source: Devotion to the Church

“In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.”

Men Stills Would Be Lying Sky Pride Angel Errors Quitting Bless Spheres Abode

Book:The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings

Source: The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings

“It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.”

Way Want Would Be Lying Too Much Asking Sells Selling Starvation Connoisseur Asking Too Much

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the knowledge I have developed there must lie the answers to that riddle, to that enigma, to that problem - the human soul - for under my hands and others, was seen the best in man rehabilitated. I discovered that a human being is not his body and demonstrated that through Scientology an individual can attain certainty of his identity apart from that of the body. We cannot deal in the realm of the human soul and ignore the fact.”

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Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“Art does not imitate, but interpret. It searches out the idea lying dormant in the symbol, in order to present the symbol to men in such form as to enable them to penetrate through it to the idea. Were it otherwise, what would be the use or value of art?”

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Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“I would be lying if I didn't admit there might be a scene in the movie where there might be alcohol in my system.”

Ifs Might Would Be Lying Scene Alcohol

Author:Aaron Paul

“I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.”

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Author:Michael Dirda

“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?”

“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.”

People Knows May Enough Would Be Lying Realizing Planets Skills Smart Female Tendencies Programmers Biased

Author:Erik Naggum

“It's not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie.”

Matter Would Be Lying Impossible Probability Unlikely

Book:Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard

Source: Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard

“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

“If golfers can run around and crow when they make a birdie, I think it would be just as proper to lie down on the green and cry when you make a bogey.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Running Lying Cry Green Golf Golfers Crow

Author:J. C. Snead

“The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.”

Ifs Trying Art Would Be Lying Secret Situation Ancient Shed Veils Nobility Statues Bourgeois Scarves

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be.”

Seems Would Be Lying Clear Shadow Uncertainty

Author:Faith Baldwin

“As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.”

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Author:Bernard Berenson

“The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.”

People Firsts Would Be Lying Break Hero Paid Soldier Reports Abandoned Submit Royal Castles Shameful Atrocities Trenches

Author:Karl Kraus

“I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear.”

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Author:Stevie Smith

“If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey, standing over me, saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'”

Ifs Would Be Lying President Chance My Own Blood Standing Hearing Damn Pool Damn Things

Author:Dick Armey

“Had He not emerged from the tomb all our hopes, all our salvation would be lying dead with Him unto this day. But as we see Him issue from the grave we see ourselves issue with Him in newness of life. Now we know that His shoulders were strong enough to bear the burden that was laid upon them, and that He is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God through Him. The resurrection of Christ is thus the indispensable evidence of His completed work, His accomplished redemption.”

“I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.”

Ifs Would Be Running Lying Office Aspiration

Author:Wendy Davis

“I would be lying if I said I cut out all dessert. When Im training, I try to satisfy those cravings with a slightly healthier dessert, like a piece of dark chocolate or whipped cream and strawberries. Those are two of my favorites!”

Ifs Trying Said Two Would Be Lying Dark Pieces Cutting Training Chocolate Cream Craving Dessert Strawberries Dark Chocolate Whipped Cream

Author:Josie Loren

“The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest lies in anticipating and profiting from market fluctuations. The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices. Market movements are important to him in a practical sense, because they alternately create low price levels at which he would be wise to buy and high price levels at which he certainly should refrain from buying and probably would be wise to sell.”

“If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men believe in the lies of religion since they cannot do without them, and let then a handful of sages, who know the truth and can live with it, keep it among themselves. Men are then divided into the wise and the foolish, the philosophers and the common men, and atheism becomes a guarded, esoteric doctrine - for if the illusions of religion were to be discredited, there is no telling with what madness men would be seized, with what uncontrollable anguish.”

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