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I hope you're not smoking in front of her,' Lucia says to him. 'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia,' he says, irritated.
Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.
Gashed with honourable scars,Low in Glory's lap they lie;Though they fell, they fell like stars,Streaming splendour through the sky.
There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.
Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.
We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.
I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
The only really unplayable lie I can think of is when you're supposed to be playing golf and come home with lipstick on your collar.
I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.
Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.
It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into anthropogenic.
Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.
Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them.
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.
For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still, to be ensnared.
Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.
Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.
What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.
Earth in beauty dressed Awaits returning spring. All true love must die, Alter at the best Into some lesser thing. Prove that I lie.
My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.
Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.
You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes.
Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth.
Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.
Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.
When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well--we shall live very well.
If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.
The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.
The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own - that is where the skill lies.
I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity.
The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.
I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.
I'm always open to meeting people, but I would be lying if I didn't say that my trust issues have changed because of 'Modern Family.'
Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.
As I get older, the idea of wasting time is becoming more and more abhorrent to me and I can't stand the idea of simply lying in bed.
The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.
One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.
Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.
Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness - the Self.