#lying

Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away?" Alex wanted to know. "You didn't see anything strange?" Alanna didn't look up. "No." It wasn't strange , she excused her lie mentally. Ralon does things like that all the time. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#bully #lying #ralon #strange #bullying

In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or some petty abuse of authority. If you have a political loyalty, you may be offered a shady reason for agreeing to a lie or a half-truth that serves some short-term purpose. Everybody devises tactics for getting through such moments; try behaving "as if" they need not be tolerated and are not inevitable. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#freethought #philosophy #bullying

Go ahead, bully me; but in 30 years, the only thing people will remember is that I am your boss ↗

— J.E. Allotey

#bullying

Like all bullies, they’re cowards underneath the swagger ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#bullying

In Life...Death smiles at everyone. The strongest will always smile back. ↗

— Timothy Pina

#inspirational #death

I'm quite scared of flying, and especially helicopters, I don't like them at all. ↗

— Heidi Klum

#flying #helicopters #i #like #quite

The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards. ↗

— Elton John

#anywhere #backwards #fly #flying #forwards

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#carcass #cow #dead #dressed #food

After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is a very risky vehicle, much more risky than even flying airplanes in combat. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#ago #always #columbia #combat #couple

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#after #aircraft #applied #carrier #first