Lying Quotes

In our beginnings lies our journey's end.

I was raised to believe in myself. I know I'm cool. I'm not trying to brag or say I'm the man or anything like that. I don't lie or cheat, and I'm not mean to anybody. I treat people with respect.

But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

I shouldn't have to ask for your permission for me to put you in my lie!

An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .

If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good

It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God's mansion lies the stump of ego. One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.

It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.

In the lead-up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw, at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility; at worst, lying, incompetence, and corruption.

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

Anybody who has played sports and says they have never choked is lying to you.

A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon it

To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine.

Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.

Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.

Peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music.

Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.

Multitasking is a lie.

There's so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They're numb to it. Too many followers, not enough leaders.

I'll take lying in your arms tonight over and above any love I've known. Memories may find me, but they'll always be behind me. I'll take today over yesterday, anyday.

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.

In my show I announce, 'People say Lady Gaga is a lie, and they are right. I am a lie. And every day I kill to make it true.'

My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

Truth lies at the confluence of independent streams of evidence.

I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.

The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers.

Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

The day's at end and there's nowhere to go, Draw to the fire, even this fire is dying; Get up and once again politely lying Invite the ladies toward the mistletoe.

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.

I love advertising because I love lying.

American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions! The only real defence civilized man has against anybody who bothers him is to lie. There would be no lies if there were no questions.

Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.