The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
~By Irvine Welsh ~
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
~By Marguerite Young ~
When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.
~By Michael P. Anderson ~
I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.
~By Jonathan Franzen ~
When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.
~By Robert Pattinson ~
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
~By Aristotle ~
Stop relying only on technology.Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him.
~By Isaac Yeffet ~
The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.
~By John Burns ~
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
~By Kingman Brewster, Jr. ~
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.
~By Roy Wood ~
I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.
~By Roald Dahl ~
I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever.
~By William Shirley ~
Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.
~By Hugh Laurie ~
I'd like to have the flying car, I think that'd be really cool.
~By Rupert Grint ~
The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
~By Vince Cable ~
When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.
~By Steven Morrissey ~
By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.
~By Randy Harrison ~
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
The sexual deviance - I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that; but we do have hints of it but in a more psychological way and therefore more human way, arguably. Or certainly to the extent that the animated series takes that sexuality.
~By Marton Csokas ~
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
~By Orson Welles ~
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
We said we would leave no stone unturned to get to Germany and now we are applying the same philosophy towards our tournament preparations.
~By John O'Neill ~
It pisses me off, people are idiots, but what are you going to do? The world is full of idiots. That's why we'll never have flying cars. People don't know how to drive.
~By Dustin Diamond ~
You've got to keep things flying.
~By Keith Emerson ~
Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.
~By Mark Kelly ~
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
~By Jean Genet ~
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
~By Robert Benchley ~
So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
~By Calista Flockhart ~
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.
~By Aaron Carter ~
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.
~By Jon Corzine ~
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.
~By William Vickrey ~
In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking.
~By John Strachan ~
Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.
~By Bobbie Gentry ~
As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.
~By Edward Lawrie Tatum ~
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
~By Redd Foxx ~
I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.
~By Patrick Marber ~
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
~By Simone Weil ~
There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.
~By Vinton Cerf ~
The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
~By Umberto Eco ~
I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.
~By Jennifer Wyatt ~
Alan White and I spent the next two or three years working together on this. We developed what is known a stochastic volatility model. This is a model where the volatility as well as the underlying asset price moves around in an unpredictable way.
~By John Hull ~
You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
~By Pope Benedict XVI ~
Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
~By Tatyana Ali ~
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
~By Spiro T. Agnew ~
I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.
~By Augusten Burroughs ~
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
~By Neil Armstrong ~
Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.
~By David Neeleman ~
A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.
~By Linda M. Godwin ~
I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.
~By Black Elk ~
Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. "I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves," he said, implying that's the view of Republicans. It's the view of almost no one.
~By Fred Barnes ~
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.
~By Julie Benz ~
When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street.
~By Jessica Tandy ~
Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
~By Martin Scorsese ~
Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.
~By Mel Torme ~
I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created.
~By Andy Summers ~
I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.
~By Leroy Chiao ~
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
~By James Thurber ~
The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.
~By John G. Diefenbaker ~
People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.
~By Nigel Kneale ~
I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.
~By Skeet Ulrich ~
You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.
~By Link Wray ~
The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
~By John Ruskin ~
I could have gone on flying through space forever.
~By Yuri Gagarin ~
I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
~By Lady Gaga ~
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
~By Bennie Thompson ~
People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.
~By Michael Zaslow ~
Lying can never save us from another lie.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?
~By Jim Capaldi ~
If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.
~By Jaroslav Seifert ~
I wouldn't abandon nobody. I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody.
~By Puff Daddy ~
There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.
~By Will Arnett ~
You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.
~By Lara Flynn Boyle ~
I'm naturally going to react to that and he'll bring out elements in my musical character that were lying dormant, because I'm relating what he's playing.
~By Benny Green ~
Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.
~By Susan George ~
I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.
~By Marlo Thomas ~
Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.
~By Matt Groening ~
I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.
~By Jeffrey Dean Morgan ~
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
~By Patrick Murray ~
In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!
~By Lucinda Williams ~
I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have.
~By Vin Diesel ~
First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.
~By Otto Hahn ~
My main point is to entertain in a way that is unique and different from what anybody else id doing; to apply my voice in a way that nobody else in the industry is applying theirs.
~By Rob Walton ~
I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied.
~By Jeff Buckley ~
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