Quotes of: Being-lied-to Keyword

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

The power behind living a dream lies in either believing it's a dream or knowing it's not.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

I think happy thoughts and feel happy things and I do not let myself near the swirling black edges of the hole that is my soul when I look at them.

Perfect Lies

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.

Pussy, King of the Pirates

Every answer I seek lies within me. Any outward seeking for my answers can only take me as far as my inner self permits.

Passion, Perseverance and Prayer

In every southerner, beneath the veneer of clichés lies a much deeper motherlode of cliché. But even cliché is overlaid with enormous power when a child is involved.

The Prince of Tides

The power of inner strength lies in the ability to overcome the adversities of life and pressing onward toward the achievement of the goal.

Think Great: Be Great: Beautiful Quotes

My zip code is my salary. Too bad I live in 32256 and not 90210. Also, I lied—but only because the zip code 00000 does not exist.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

You should've told me Tess," I murmured against her hair. "You helped me find my humanness but you took it away with your lies.

Twisted Together

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

Ulysses

This is my first snow at Smith. It is like any other snow, but from a different window, and there lies the singular charm of it.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave

Virginibus Puerisque

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.

When the Tripods Came

Because if we were all created idealists, then life was bound to be one relentless disappointment. But then, there was also music. We unlearned the lies with one hand and repeated them with the other.

Wunderkind

Force persuades a person to speak, but it cannot guarantee his honesty. Quite the reverse: it will extract confessions from innocents and lies from simple sinners...

At Your Pleasure

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first esc...

Anthony Hecht

Now here I am almost 52 years old, it's really easy. I'm way more at peace. But when you're a competitor, and you're as intent on becoming the best in the world as I was, it comes with consequences.

Kirk Gibson

Time often sheds light on curious circumstances. Something we thought was a crazy miscalculation may, in fact, turn out to be the key component to the winning play.

The Truth About Lies

August in Mississippi is different from July. As to heat, it is not a question of degree but of kind. July heat is furious, but in August the heat has killed even itself and lies dead over us.

Fire in the Morning