Quotes About Unraveling Lies

#1. Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us.

Marcel Proust

#2. The body might be engaged in the most base drudgery, but always the mind can be thinking on whatever is lovely, pure, noble.

Julie Klassen

#3. The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

Dalai Lama

#4. She knew it wasn't real. She knew the holograph wouldn't hurt. But she also knew that fire was dangerous, and illusions were dangerous, and being tricked into believing things that weren't real was often the most dangerous thing of all.

Marissa Meyer

#5. The variety of more minute interests, which will necessarily fall under the superintendence of the local administrations ... cannot be particularized without involving a detail too tedious and uninteresting to compensate for the instruction it might afford.

Alexander Hamilton

#6. I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents.

Salman Rushdie

#7. There are worse places to be than on your own.

Ernest Hemingway,

#8. I come from labor country. My mom was a teacher and was very involved in the teachers' union.

John Wells

#9. The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.

Lucian

#10. The forms of manners which should be scrupulously observed are, invariably, those which contribute to the comfort, or dignity of others.

Josephine Ross

#11. Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.

Richard Attias

#12. For Baby, the marriage was a bad one, but it never entered her head that she might complain or refuse to marry Ram. . . . Fortunately, in her eyes what others might have considered an injustice, she considered a law of life.

Shiva Naipaul

#13. The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless,

Robert Genn

#14. You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as evil or not. So I try to bring the characters to life by making them likable or lovable, in the sense that they can be, at least to themselves.

Mark Russell