Lying Quotes

What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.

placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

It’s just as easy to lie to yourself as it is to lie to other people. Maybe easier.

It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction.

But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.

maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it

I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and comedic to very real dramatic moments in the wink of an eye.

As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.

I think that everybody does hustle in order to survive. That doesn't mean lying - it's more about how you handle situations.

If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world.

Donald Trump lies with astonishing frequency and in stunning volume.

Some pretty senior young individuals in and around the Cabinet should share the responsibility for talking up an election and referring publicly on the radio to where the risk lies.

All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you'll die, and you'll probably be alone.

The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.

In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.

At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.

Death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.

It is only when you're lying to yourself or hating some aspect of yourself that you'll get an emotional charge from someone else's behavior.

Lake quiets, tired of my lies.

Art never lies, I believe.

Eighty percent of language lies to us.

In the very moment, the seeds of a perfect destiny lie dormant within you. When you release their potential, you can manifest a life more wonderful and any dream.

In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.

The mirror can lie. It doesn’t show you what’s inside.

Now I know who you are U got nothin' on me, I see I should've known it from the start You can't tell me lies Don't even try cuz This is goodbye Goodbye

I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.

Lies are weapons of mass destruction.

We cannot take the president off the hook for an illegal war that was based on lies.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

It is a world of lies that permeates the Left

Let us make war on the phrase 'violence doesn't solve anything.' It is a lie, and anyone who utters it cannot be taken morally seriously.

Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.

I'd rather deal with the consequences of the truth rather than the benefits of a lie.

Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.

You'll lie wi' me now," he said quietly. "And I shall use ye as I must. And if you'll have your revenge for it, then take it and welcome, for my soul is yours, in all the black corners of it.

I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.

I don't lie. I would never stuff my bra because it's going to come off and the truth is going to be revealed. I don't like that padding. I try to be completely - if not brutally - honest.

The Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.

When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.

The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.

The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before him, not after him.

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

In the last few days, I have been the victim of a campaign of slander and shameful lies, a campaign which has deeply shocked and hurt me. Enough is enough.

There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.

How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?

The deciding differentiator in how you drive LOYALTY lies within your greatest asset....your people.

All talk is lies in a way. Only the doing of a thing can make it true.

Only the most sophisticated of beings can lie and cheat, and get away with it.

There's always fear. Always fear. Anyone who says they are not afraid is lying to you. Because this can all change tomorrow.