Lying Quotes

Nuclear power must be dealt with irrationally. . . . Nuclear plants are carcinogens. Let's get that story out. . . . Their lies will catch up to them. We need endless Chernobyl reminders.

One of the main causes of our artistic decline lies beyond doubt in the separation of art and science.

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

The enemy say that Americans are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call upon you instantly to give a lie to this slander. Charge!

This story is true. Of course, there are many lies therein and most of it did not happen, but it's all true. In that sense it is deeply religious, perhaps even biblical.

Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.

Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

I put a spell on you and now you're mine. You can't stop the things I do. I ain't lying.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Lying is too much trouble. You have to make sure to taste each word before letting it off your tongue. I hate that. It's hard enough making people understand without lying.

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

We lie by not telling you things...We don't lie by telling you things that aren't true.

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.

A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness .

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.

Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.

The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.

When a man lies he murders some part of the world These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives All this i cannot bear to witness any longer Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home.

The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled, blind.

I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can't have that in public life.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph

The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.

To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.

A man called, wanting to borrow a rope. "You cannot have it," said Nasrudin. "Why not?" "Because it is in use." "But I can see it just lying there, on the ground." "That's right: that's its use.

I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.