Lying Quotes

The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep.

I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.

When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?

The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and wonder if my life would be different if I had to do it over... Then a voice comes to me out of the dark that says, "boy, there's an original thought!

Aren't the clouds beautiful? I could just lie here all day, and watch them drift by.

Nothing is so sweet as to lie passive in God's hands, and know no will but His.

He is ready to cleanse you, It is sin, after all, that lies at the door and blocks you way to the Savior.

That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.

But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.

I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear.

I felt like a sinful person when I dated men and allowed them to feel for me in a way I knew I could never naturally feel for them. That felt wrong and a lie.

In California there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground—or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.

I might not be in a relationship anymore, but I don't believe that people should have to lie to themselves just to make somebody else feel good.

Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.

How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.

I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.

Or perhaps it is just that desire lies at the heart of human existence. When we turn away from one desire, we must find another to cleave to with all our strength --or else we die.

The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

It is heartbreaking to me that I wasn't told the truth. I'm a very loyal guy, and I expect loyalty in return. And lying to me is not an exhibition of loyalty.

If you could ask that question more precisely, you probably wouldn't be interested in the answer anymore

I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.

Isn't Hollywood - and I love movies - a lot of it about a big lie?

I find [Donald Trump] to be a vile human being - one that lies so often, so casually, and with such confidence, that fact-checkers actually cannot keep up.

I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.

Women have been brought up much like slaves, that is, to lie.

A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.

The house is made up of the spirits of our ancestors. Did you think they would lie idly by while we were under attack?" 'Cuz, yeah, didn't everybody's ancestors rise up and destroy enemies.

As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street.

Isolation of the caretaker role is a real danger. That way lies sadness.

I'll be a grieving mom until I die because of the lies that took my son, ... I plan on keeping this up until the troops are brought home.

This was a war that was based on lies. It was wrong for us to invade Iraq. It's wrong for us to occupy Iraq and we need to bring our troops home.

We need a people's movement to end this war, ... We're going to ask them How many more of other people's children are you willing to sacrifice for the lies

It's obvious that things aren't going well over there. This is a war based on lies.

Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a lying president?

Recruiters in our country are known for lying to people.

Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.

I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.

Everybody will always find some way of diminishing your work, but it's all a lie!

I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

Despite the Brian Williams lying scandal, NBC News led in the ratings last week. Although I should note the figures were reported by Brian Williams.

For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).

We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but we know that we rose and walked, that after a while we shall lie down again.

Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial?

American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.

The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less.

When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

He's a little deceiving. He doesn't have a real good arm slot as far as trying to pick the ball up out of his hand. He made some pretty good pitches when he had to.