Best willing & lying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.”

World Lying Lost This World Willing Fellows Drivers Screws Haul

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“People have been willing to accept that the government is lying to us, but they are now more willing to accept the concept of aliens and other life forms. There's just a slew of stuff out there right now. It's been people's closet belief system, and now it's coming out of the closet.”

People Has Beens Government Form Lying Belief Stuff Accepting Willing Right Now Concepts Aliens Coming Out Closets Belief Systems Coming Out Of The Closet

Author:Gillian Anderson

“Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.”

Has Beens Lying Atheism Willing Died Filled Positive Atheism Miles Dust Covered Funeral Monument Hypocrite Respectable Imposing Carriages Hypocritical

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to bear the brunt of thestorm, if we can only be the means of making a break in that wall of public opinion which lies right in the way of woman's rights, true dignity, honor and usefulness.”

Ifs Way Mean Whole Seems Lying Opinion Break Rights Land Willing Wall Bears Honor Dignity Glad Discussion Womens Rights Public Opinion Usefulness Provinces

Author:Angelina Grimke

“It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.”

Persons Two Political Lying Powerful Willing Institutions Two Things Amplify Powerful Person

Author:Rick Perlstein

“I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself.”

People Lying Dies Felt Teaching Willing Bigger Witness Empowering Telling The Truth Exposing Bearing Witness Something Bigger Than Yourself

Author:Cornel West

“There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.”

People Bigs Lying Influence Willing Majors

Author:Jack Nicholson

“I'd be lying if I said that I knew I was there. I'm being completely honest. Nobody has a right in my view to seek Presidents office unless they are willing to give it 110 percent of who they are.”

Ifs Giving Said Lying President Views Honest Willing Office Percent

Author:Joe Biden

“We're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that we're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find that it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. All the ones who don't have the same reality tunnel as us do not seem ignorant, or deliberately perverse, or lying, or hypnotized by some mad ideology, they just have a different reality tunnel. And every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world, if we're willing to listen.”

“Someone who lies for you will also lie to you. The occasional benefit your business may gain from a successful deception or concealment is always outweighed by the encouragement it provides to those willing to risk trust for success.”

May Lying Successful Risk Willing Benefits Gains Encouragement Deception Occasional Concealment

Author:Michael Josephson

“Beauty lies within a person that is willing to do anything for their love, love is beauty within the heart.”

Heart Persons Lying Love Is Willing Beauty Within

Author:Janel Parrish

“People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.”

People Believe Kind Lying Willing

Book:Laurie Simmons: the music of regret

Source: Laurie Simmons: the music of regret

“I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35, which I'm not, and have them say, 'Oh that's nice,' when I could tell them I'm 47, which I am, and have them look at me and go, 'Whoa!'. I'm not afraid of aging. I stopped being afraid of life a long time ago.”

People Want Looks Long Age Earth Lying Nice Willing Long Time Aging Not Afraid Look At Me Long Time Ago Being Afraid Afraid Of Life

Author:Sharon Stone

“That it is not the people who really feel that way, but it is people who have the most money to fire up these propaganda campaigns, these like, basically these lies that they are willing to lie to the public in order to manipulate them into doing what they want. And to me it doesn't make any sense.”

People Way Want Feels Lying Order Fire Willing Campaigns Propaganda Manipulate

Author:Margaret Cho

“Major danger lie for America? That we could very well be defeated oversees and at home. And the source of it is clearly that we have yet to find a politician in either partywho's willing to tell the American people the truth.”

People Wells Home America Lying Danger Willing Source Politician Majors Defeated

Author:Michael Scheuer

“There is no question that a very large number of people have to move; you cannot live where the water comes over you. I have not heard one suggestion on how we are going to move one hundred million people out of low-lying areas and what countries would be willing to accept them.”

People Country Would Be Moving Lying Water Numbers Accepting Millions Heard Willing Lows Hundred Areas Over You Suggestions Large Numbers

Author:Walter Munk

“If [Respulicans] can't get rid of [Obamacare], they're going to have to tell their base, we've been lying to you for the last five years. So they're willing to go to almost any extent to do that. That's unusual, in fact I think it's unique in the history of modern parliamentary systems. And it's very dangerous for the country and for the world.”

Ifs Thinking World Years Country Facts Lasts Lying Five Modern Dangerous Willing Unique Five Years Unusual Obamacare Parliamentary Last Five Years Parliamentary System

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.”

Hard Used Lying Night Passion Willing Hard Work Determination Awake Awake At Night

Author:Kevin Pietersen

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