Pastoral Resources

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

I won't tolerate lying.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.

To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.

I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.