Quotes of: Being-lied-to Keyword

To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.

The Flight of the Eagle

It is at the times when I feel that I have nothing that the gem lies in the palm of my hand.

Fire of the Five Hearts: A Memoir of Treating Incest

...Use your finger to trace the scar upon my chest- I lied - it wasn't a knife wound, but a scrape from a nail sliding under a fence to see you...

A Familiar Rain

The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy – it is already too late for that – but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance.

Game Management

Your success lies behind your choices... To get there, you must choose it and drive your dreams in that chosen direction!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Life is choice. You can choose to be who you dream to be or not to be. It all lies in the choice you make every day!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.

The Hobbit

Mind control is built in lies and manipulation of attachment needs. Valerie Sinason, from the Forward of the book

Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

Hogfather

...someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I'm a collector of shavings.

How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

The House of the Seven Gables

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

In every man, of course, a demon lies hidden-the demon of rage, the demon of lustful heat at the screams of the tortured victim, the demon of lawlessness let off the chain

The Brothers Karamazov

The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.

The Book of the City of Ladies

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

Beautiful Lies

A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

The house burned in the fire. Her house. Her prison of lies and of denial. Her American dream turned nightmare.”~Unbreakable Heart

Bits of You & Pieces of Me

...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies.

The Borrower

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

P. G. Wodehouse

You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.

Thomas Perry

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

Joe Namath