Lying Quotes

I love lying in darkness.

Savasana is the easiest and most important yoga move because it's so simple. Lying there is meditative.

..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

Germans respond well to lies. At least, they always have historically.

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows.

Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify it into law is to codify a lie.

And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.

...A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color.

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.

Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely.

In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints.

In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience.

if a lie is repeated often enough, it ends up convincing everyone

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. . . .

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.

We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing

Do not analyze things to death. Sometimes the best strategy is, "Ready, fire, aim." Do it first , then make adjustments. The answer lies in action-not in words.

The world belongs to women. In other words, to death. But everyone lies about it.

Fang can't stand to see trash & garbage lying around the house. He can't stand the competition.

A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]

A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).

I wouldn't abandon nobody. I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody.

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!.. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

Art lies by its own artifice.

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.

Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.

Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand.

The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies. -Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down deja-vu.

Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.