Lying Quotes
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.
toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.
I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties.
It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.
Every plant has its fitness and must be placed in its proper surroundings so as to bring out its full beauty. Therein lies the art of landscaping.
Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.
I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.
I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.
My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").
I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.
Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.
A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.
You can't lie down when people come on to use you, you have to stand up for your rights too.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Don't scrutinize people with a microscope; view them from a comfortable distance. And allow some room for compassion in the space the lies between you.
Remember all those times I swore I needed you? Well consider them lies because baby here I am without you and I survived.
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.
Barbara said she knew it was in as soon as she shot it. She's told me a lot of lies over the last four years, but that was the biggest one I've ever heard.
So when a great man dies For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.
When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.
The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.
Let us...once and forever put an end to that lie which says that Calvinism and an interest in evangelism are not comparable.
Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.
The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.
We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.
Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.
The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.