All It Takes Is One Lie Quotes

#1. It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

Rick Perlstein

#2. When hope dies, you breathe it back to life again! No matter how long it takes, or what time's required to heal the wound. Disappointment will not last a lifetime unless you lie down and give in.

Janny Wurts

#3. A human being at rest runs on 90 watts. That's how much power you need just to lie down. And if you're a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you'll need about 250 watts. That's how much energy it takes to run about and find food.

Geoffrey West

#4. There was a saying among the Mundo: It takes only one lie to unravel the world.

Alice Walker

#5. I lie in the dirt and pretend his words about my love don't hurt, but they slice me like the ice cold winds of winter. It takes all of the power I have left to lie there quietly and not remind him of the promises he has not kept.

Inger Iversen

#6. It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

Jodi Picoult

#7. I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound's Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they'd lie there and discuss the sale at Barney's between takes.

Angelina Jolie

#8. Bullshit takes no genius,
even fool senses its' foul.

Toba Beta

#9. It must be confessed that it takes considerable skill to produce the best kind of lies. It is in the hands of first-class photographers only - and perhaps the indifferent ones - that photography can lie.

Henry Peach Robinson

#10. There are mornings on this road trip as the early light gathers itself, something quite unexpected happens. My camera pushes me aside and takes on a life of it's own, conspiring with nature and becoming a veritable paintbrush. I'd like to take credit for the end result, but I know it would be a lie.

Stephen Braxton Thompson

#11. It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.

Noam Chomsky

#12. It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Norman Douglas

#13. Nothing poisons love more than honesty. If love lasts until the day we die, we will live without showing our real self to our beloved until the day we die. Love makes us more beautiful and distorts us. Love takes our impulse to lie to an extreme.

Yang Gui-ja

#14. People's need to protect their own egos know no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, even kill, to do whatever it takes to maintain what we call ego boundries.

Andrew Samuels

#15. It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

Jim Rohn

#16. My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate.

Chelsea Handler

#17. Everyone lies about writing. They lie about how easy it is or how hard it was. They perpetuate a romantic idea that writing is some beautiful experience that takes place in an architectural room filled with leather novels and chai tea.

Amy Poehler

#18. What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time ... ?

Anne Lamott

#19. I'm pretty busy in my life and I'm very aware of what it takes to direct a movie. It takes a lot out of you; it takes a lot out of the rest of your life, from other people in your life. I don't lie around hungering for that consumption very often.

Edward Norton

#20. The devil has a thousand names," said Crews, voice rising, "but the name he takes the most pride in is Prince of Lies, because he is such a convincing fraud. Even God himself was fooled by Satan once, so what hope do we have to tell what's truth and what's false?

Robert Ferrigno

#21. It takes thirty-three days to write a book
only thirty-three days. remember, writers lie for a living.

Darynda Jones

#22. deal with self-righteous prosecutors who lie, cheat, stonewall, cover up, ignore ethics, and do whatever it takes to get a conviction, even when they know the truth and the truth tells them they are wrong.

John Grisham

#23. To test a man, determine how much it takes to make him lie.

C.J. Langenhoven

#24. Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#25. It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

Pierre Corneille

#26. It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

Chuck Palahniuk

#27. A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs.

Paul G. Hoffman

#28. He takes her in his arms
He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you
But he thinks
this is a lie, so he says in the end
You're dead, nothing can hurt you
which seems to him
a more promising beginning, more true.

Louise Gluck

#29. If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what.

Margot Livesey

#30. Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at "easy." Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it.

Donna Lynn Hope