People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
Otto von BismarkTags: people war lying elections hunting
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
Otto von BismarckTags: people war lying elections hunting
Lying is easy. But it’s lonely.
Victoria SchwabTags: lying
Lies is lying the memory from the truth
Ahmad Rahmat RamadhanDo What?'
'Lie,' he said. 'Why do you fabricate these outlandish stories?'
'Well,' I wanted to say, 'there are those of us who create because all around us, things visible and invisible are crumbling. We are like the stonemasons of Babylon, forever working, as it says in Jeremiah, to shore up the city of walls.'
I didn't say that, of course. What I did say was: 'I don't know.
Tags: lying truth-telling
After the woman left, Gran, staring out back at the Zebra Forest, said to me, 'I'm a liar, I'll admit. But I pride myself on being a really good liar. That's part of my educational philosophy, too, Annie B. Mark that down. Lesson one: If you're going to do something, make sure to do it with excellence.
Adina Rishe GewirtzTags: education learning lying excellence
Moreover, grandmothers of students who aren't doing so well in class are at even higher risk - students who are failing are fifty times more likely to lose a grandmother compared with non-failing students. In a paper exploring this sad connection, Adam speculates that the phenomenon is due to intrafamilial dynamics, which is to say, students' grandmothers care so much about their grandchildren that they worry themselves to death over the outcome of exams.
Dan ArielyTags: funny lying dishonesty cheating
One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibilize or it could audibilize things that were not real. The other human would be aware only of what it heard and would change its behavior in response to a nonexistent stimulus. They called it 'lying.
Robert BuettnerTags: humanity human-nature lying humanity-complexity
Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.
Steven PressfieldTags: lies lying resistance shit full-of-shit
It’s going to be okay, Eric," Urte said, helping me sit up.
I shook my head. "Lying is my forte, Urte, not yours.” (Eric.)
Tags: humor lying comfort lying-to-ourselves forte
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