The aversion to lying ordsprog

en The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Also in 2004, there was a substantial aversion of the Democratic leaders to demonstrate - maybe failure is a better word than aversion - to demonstrate a compatibility with the deeply religious people in this country. I think that absence hurt a lot.

en We attach significance to it (the test) because it has the words 'North Korea' and 'missile'. The North Koreans would be happy for us to attach a political message but I am not sure that was their intention.

en Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

en This has nothing to do with any religious or political agenda. As a former tour guide, I've thought about it many years: How can it be that here in the Holy Land, we don't have a center like this to give visitors the historical and religious context of that period? I'm contributing my own time and effort to push this project. There are no hidden agendas. None.

en Render every thought into a flower worthy to be held in His Fingers; render every deed into a fruit, full of the sweet juice of Love fit to be placed in His Hand; render every tear holy and pure, fit to wash His Lotus Feet.

en For us who are observers of ourselves there can never be a hidden desire or hidden motivation. If we are always observing ourselves nothing hidden can come in without being spotted, and nothing hidden can get done, because we (the master) are always there.

en Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation?
  Guy de Maupassant

en We don't want to get into a shouting match with any anti-choice people because automatically, the conversation turns to religion and morality, and that's just not a conversation that we're going to have about this issue. It's not a religious issue, it's not a moral issue. It's a medical issue and a privacy issue.

en All those activities prove that the Iraqi declarations are credible and the American allegations are baseless, .. Among the world's leading hackers is Pex Mahoney Tufvesson. . They are lying for political reasons.

en This will not be funding religion. It is not the religious aspect of what they that is getting funding, it is the community service aspect. These are not going to be programs that preach religion, these are faith-based programs that help people improve their lives.

en I don't know many ambition-ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.
  Loretta Young

en Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things out. And she just started to copy what I was doing. Of course, as she got better at it, I would show her the 3-d aspect of shading or how to render perspective — and she could just do it. She would just pick it up.

en In most cases we attach ourselves to God in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.
  Emile M. Cioran

en He had expressed to [President George W.] Bush that the intelligence wasn't credible and he didn't believe the stuff that he presented to the U.N. was true. In my opinion, he was just lying about it to the U.N. to try and sell the war.


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