Ancient Quote by Alastair Reynolds Download Open image “It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.” — Alastair Reynolds ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Lying Technique
Kriya is an ancient science,” Yogananda writes. Mahavatar Babaji rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark Ages. Babaji… — Lahiri Mahasaya Copy Share Image
Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“By the time the arachne caught up with them in Kejesli’s quarters, Maggy found layli-layli calulan in the midst of an elaborate lie. Like… — Janet Kagan Copy Share Image
“In Mongolian culture, Khutulun is remembered by the sport in which she so excelled. These days when Mongolian men wrestle, they wear a sort… — Linda Rodríguez McRobbie Copy Share Image
Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique. — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“When Klara plucks a coin from inside someone's ear or turns a ball into a lemon, she hopes not to deceive but to impart… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Lying is universal - we all do it. Therefore, the wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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“So much for the tolerant acceptance of the other. We’re forging out into deep space – who knows what we’ll meet out there? If… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Believe me, when you're dealing with infectious alien mind parasites, I always find primitive is best." Then, calmly, almost as if it were a… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“There's a vorg loose," Meroka explained. "In case that escaped your attention. Ricasso's doing his bit for Swarm, trying to kill the thing before… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“The two men -- Fray and Malkin -- were standing near each other. They were not unarmed. They were quite seriously not unarmed. Both… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I couldn't think of anything more pointless than reading a piece of fiction written by a robot. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
There is enough material in the Kuiper Belt to build anything out there. We could gobble up all the little asteroids, filtering out all… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“I don't know." That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Speaking for myself, I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
