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Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
The supreme blossoming of character lies (or reside) in renounciation (or renuncement) and abnegation of self ("abnégation de soi", Fr.)
Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?
So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.
Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you'd clicked 'Send'.
He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.
The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.
I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.
God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.
All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.
Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.
Lies are horny little buggers, they breed like rabbits and bound around just as insanely and then you have to try to keep track of them.
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
My ideal office wouldn't have a chair. You would do two things there: stand up or lie down. These are the body's most natural positions.
If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.
I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
The idea is that it will tell you where the importance lies, because it will be able to show you what impacts you in your everyday life.
I've been lying to you guys for a long time, saying I wasn't nervous and there's no pressure. There was a lot of pressure to do it here.
Well, once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.
Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.
If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.
This whole [presidential] election is being rigged. These lies, spread by the media, without witnesses, without backup or anything else.
If I call it pain, and try to touch it With my hands, my own life, It lies still and the music thins, A pulse felt for through garments.
A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs.
Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.
A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.
I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free.
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.
I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind.
A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.
You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.
The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.
Kissing Simon was pleasant. It was a gentle sort of pleasant, like lying in a hammock on a summer day with a book and a glass of lemonade
I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.
Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.
After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't really socialize with the other actors.
Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.
A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.
There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
I'm lively when I perform and I always put everything into a show, but when I get home I love lying down in front of the TV and relaxing.
I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world.
It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.