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  • Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Lying Quotes , Eye Quotes
  • The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Lying Quotes
  • 'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Liars Quotes , Lying Quotes
  • I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Lying Quotes , Mean Quotes
  • Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest passions we posses.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Lying Quotes , Passion Quotes
  • 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.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Al Franken Quotes , Lying Quotes , Media Quotes