Lying Quotes

Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then you're just lying.

You know, its just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.

Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time.

A critical key to achieving success lies in your ability to activate your potential to create the results you seek... start by being aware of your self-sabotaging patterns.

At first a golfer excuses a dismal performance by claiming bad lies. With experience, he covers up with better ones.

There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain.

I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .

(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying.

I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us.

In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by

I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.

None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy' And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.

O vanity, mislead no more!

Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

How long?" His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest." For ever?" Sam's lips smiled, but above his grin, his yellow eyes turned sad, as if he knew it was a lie. "Longer.

The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

Lies are essential to humanity.

Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient

He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.

O Nature, gracious mother of us all, Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye That seeks and waits.

Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.

Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.

The miracle often lies outside our comfort zone.

People can sense you lying on the camera, they can smell it. They know when you're not telling the truth. Then it does become reality-show bullshit.

Nothing's forever forever's a lie. All we have is what's between hello and goodbye.

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be

No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.