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witty lying trying
Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
witty self rose
He grinned. “Busted. I’m a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless — and shockingly handsome — alter ego.” “And I’m on top of it,” she announced with witty triumph. “Is that a Freudian slip?” His bluntness caught her off guard. A self-conscious blush rose in her face. Becca Fitzpatrick
witty people world
Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent. Antoine Rivarol
witty disappointment party
I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all. Bill Bryson
witty zebras inspiration
A zebra does not change its spots. Al Gore
witty truth science
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. Charles Pierce
witty humor mean
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. Ayn Rand
witty guilt accepting
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
witty humorous healing
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
lying sea clouds
Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.
lying fall hands
My legs are falling asleep,” I blurted. It wasn’t a total lie. I was experiencing tingling sensations all through my body, legs included. “I could solve that.” Patch’s hands closed on my hips.
lying nice black
Wow. Nice bike,” I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap.
lying eye focus
Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil.
lying reality men
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side. B. H. Liddell Hart
lying atmosphere adequate
Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions.
lying thinking guitar
Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you. B. B. King
lying men differences
I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior. B. F. Skinner
lying book reading
We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them. C. S. Lewis
trying
Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model. John Hull
trying
I'm here trying to do it one more time. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my wife. I'm doing it for my teammates. So they can all say you've still got it. Wilson Alvarez
trying
Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can. Bebe Neuwirth
trying would-be easy
With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to. Beck
trying records
I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.
trying noses cigar
I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.
trying singers entertainers
I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
trying cool-person rocking-out
I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking. Billy Corgan
trying conflict direct
I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.