Pastoral Resources

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.

Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.

You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

The test of any man lies in action.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.