Lying Quote by Shirley Hazzard Download Open image “Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.” — Shirley Hazzard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lying Please Untruth Wish
Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Illogical logic and unreasonable reasoning is how the truth becomes untruth. — Andrew Cervantes Copy Share Image
Because the more you engage with someone who is spreading untruths, the more validity you give to those untruths. — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I don't know what else to do other than tell people what I think to be untruths. — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
You are never given a wish without being given the power to make it come true. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead. — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into their thoughts,… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“But that's a way to go on loving--a place, or a person. To miss it. In fact, to go away, to put yourself in… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“I see that you are highly defensive." . . . Caro said, "I withhold my analysis of your own attitude.” — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“... although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable--children themselves seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“I said, "Some people do know more than others. That contributes to the impression that someone, somewhere,knows the whole thing." [p. 38]” — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“Dark had meant Dora, had meant words and events sordid with self. Struggling to the light from Dora's darkness, Caro had acquired conscience and equilibrium like a profound, laborious education. Exercise of principle would always require more from her than from persons nurtured in it, for she had learned it by application of will. Caro would never do the right… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share
Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with. — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, as now, her heart twisted and broke under his determination to wound her. At others, she was almost convinced that she felt nothing more for him, that he had overdrawn on her endurance: then she would stay silent for awhile, almost at peace, beyond his reach, not knowing whether she had been utterly vanquished or become completely invincible. However,… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share
“Chief Coordinator of DALTO – the Department of Aid to the Less technically Oriented, working to induce backwards nations to come forwards.” — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When… — Natalie Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress. Thinking, negative thinking causes stress. The real cause of all problems lie in our thoughts, not in things or circumstances. You and I possess the power to change our thoughts. It is our greatest power - the power to choose. If you are feeling stressful, choose to relax. Look at… — Bob Proctor Copy Share
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
I just can’t, Nick, okay? Now, please give me a second to lie here in silence and bleed.” – Caleb — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection, and community. That's what there's too little of in today's mediascape, despite all the hoopla surrounding social tools. The promise of the Internet wasn't merely to inflate relationships, without adding depth, resonance, and meaning. It was… — Umair Haque Copy Share