Lying Quotes

The degree of difficulty in creating what we want lies within our belief about the difficulty or possibility of creating it.

I most certainly can deny it. Of course, if I did, I'd be lying." Mairelon

I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.

Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

I believe a writer's most important skill lies in being able to see things from different perspectives.

My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.

Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.

The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives.

Ultimate questions will always lie beyond the scope of empirical science as it is.

Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it.

The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol.

Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head.

You don't want to rely on an expert to tell you what lies ahead.

I'm actually an optimist about what lies ahead. Are wikis reliable? It depends on the specific business. Is Wikipedia reliable? You bet. Wikipedia is a researcher's dream.

I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.

Politicians often lie.

Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.

A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.

Lie down on the ground and feel the planet's heart beating.

It's in the present that lies the secret: if you pay attention to the present you will be able to enhance it.

The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people.

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

When everyone in America knows you're in a dreadful position, admit you're in a dreadful position. Don't lie about it and make them roll their eyes, tell the truth and make them blink.

I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.

Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.

Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.

If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.

He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it's almost evening.

As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, “Look, he's still moving!

I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.

With the man in the woman, and the woman in the man. In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man.

We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.

I didn't mislead people. I know I didn't lie and I have got to establish that.

Perhaps the thing that most got to me was the ide - the whole thing about lying, and how pervasive lying about Vietnam was.

The difference between a healthy group or organization and an unhealthy one lies in its members' awareness and ability to acknowledge their felt needs to conform.

Here lies Mickey Mantle. Banned from baseball.

Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.

You can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a pack of lies.

And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't live proud enough to die when I'm goneSo I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here.

A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.

Do not lie to the Scholar.

Laugh out, O stream, from your bed of green, / Where you lie in the sun's embrace; / And talk to the reeds that o'er you lean / To touch your dimpled face.