Quotes of: Being-lied-to Keyword

Tom: This is lies. We are liars. Think about it. Why do people buy cards? It's not because they want to say how they feel. People buy cards because they can't say they feel or are afraid to. And we provide the service that let's them off the hook. Yo...

(500) Days of Summer

Kurtz: I worry that my son might not understand what I've tried to be. And if I were to be killed, Willard, I would want someone to go to my home and tell my son everything. Everything I did, everything you saw, because there's nothing that I detest ...

Apocalypse Now

[Batman confronts Ra's, flanked by two of his ninjas] Batman: It ends here. Ra's al Ghul: For you and the police, maybe. My fight, however, lies with the rest of Gotham. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a city to destroy. Batman: I can't beat two of ...

Batman Begins

King's Advisor: [to Princess] Sanguinarius homo indomitus est, et se me dite cum mendacia. [He is a bloody murdering savage. And he's telling lies] William Wallace: Ego nunquam pronunciari mendacium! Sed ego sum homo indomitus. [I never lie. But I am...

Braveheart

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or ...

Anton Chekhov

History has taught us that often lies serve her better than the truth, for man is sluggish and has to be led through the desert for forty years before each step in his development. And he has to be driven through the desert with threats and promises,...

Arthur Koestler

Everyone lies to themselves, but many people do it with good intentions. They want to believe what they tell themselves, it is oftentimes the best possible version of reality for them. Although it may not be accurate, it is a mural of their desires, ...

Ashly Lorenzana

The scent of hyacinths, like a pale mist, lies between me and my book; And the South Wind, washing through the room, Makes the candles quiver. My nerves sting at a spatter of rain on the shutter, And I am uneasy with the thrusting of green shoots Out...

Amy Lowell

An old Cherokee told his grandson, 'My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, em...

Love

For a century, environmentalism has divided itself into warring camps: conservationists versus preservationists.... The struggle pits those who would meddle with nature against those who would leave it be.... The only sensible way forward lies in a m...

Love

Un despota imbecille può costringere gli schiavi con le catene di ferro; ma un vero politico li lega assai più fortemente con la catena delle proprie idee. lLegame tanto più forte perché ne ignoriamo la tessitura e la crediamo opera nostra. Sulle...

Love

Rare and powerful harmonies exist, Shaping both scent and contour in a flower. Thus brilliance lies unseen by us until, Beneath the chisel, it blazes in the diamond. And thus do images of fleeting vision, Drifting above like cloud-forms in the sky, O...

Valery Bryusov

All of us, even when we think we have noted every tiny detail, resort to set pieces which have already been staged often enough by others.[...] Our concern with history, so Hilary's thesis ran, is a concern with pre-formed images already imprinted on...

W. G. Sebald Austerlitz 2001

My imagination is my everything. I imagined myself as everything, and eventually I found out that the tree is the hardest thing to be, it stays still looking at thieves, burglars, murderers, lovers, haters, friends, families, its can see the truth an...

Yasmeen Khair

The best cure for one's own grief and pain was worrying about the well-being of someone else.

Children of Fire

Education isn't for getting a job. It's about developing yourself as a human being.

The China Garden

Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.

Climats

Service is providing what's wanted, not what I'd like to give.

The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World

That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!

Diggers

So I don't even get a chance to learn before I'm being judged.

Ender's Game

Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

Embassytown