Top 100 Big Lie Quotes
#1. There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.
Jim Clifton
#3. The big lie is that the people who make a lot of money were the only ones that worked hard.
Chris Matthews
#4. All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Bob Dylan
#5. A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.
Darrell Huff
#6. We are in a degenerate state of self-government. In fact, even to use the words self-government, is not only an exaggeration, it's a lie. It's a big lie!
Jerry Brown
#7. I am criticizing a culture that has sold the big lie that 'Mom doesn't matter.'
Mike Pence
#8. The big lie out there, the big lie that the Republicans propagate day after day, is that cutting marginal rates for those at the top is going to create jobs. It's simply not true.
Eliot Spitzer
#10. Once a Big Lie was let out in the world, it seemed to grow on its own and needed little tending or worry to bend to the situation.
Scott Lynch
#11. If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth.
Harry S. Truman
#12. I got a feeling your statements are true but all they add up to is one big lie.
Vincent Gardenia
#13. You tell the big lie by carefully selecting only the small, isolated truths, linking them in such a way that that advance the bigger lie by painting a picture inside the viewer's head. The Ascended High Master of this Dark Art is Noam Chomsky.
Bill Whittle
#14. Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.
Allen Ginsberg
#15. The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers.
Rosemary Radford Ruether
#16. It's not easy to pull off the Big Lie
and George Bush has failed.
Robert Scheer
#17. You can be with the 'truth' or you can cheat yourself by believing the big lie in front of you is the 'truth'. Those who are with the 'truth' are a minority, whom you may call Utopians.
Kandathil Sebastian
#18. Which he said was the big lie they all bought that made doctors and standard therapy such a waste of time for people like us
they thought that diagnosis was the same as cure. That if you knew why, it would stop. Which is bullshit. You only stop if you stop.
David Foster Wallace
#19. When you reject the genuine, you are wide open for the spurious. Paul wrote to the Thessalonians that when someone rejects the love of the truth that they might be saved, they will believe the big lie.
J. Vernon McGee
#20. Isn't Hollywood - and I love movies - a lot of it about a big lie?
Chris Matthews
#21. The Big Lie in the church today is that you are nothing more than a sinner saved by grace.
John Eldredge
#22. The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitler
#24. The Big Lie is a major untruth uttered frequently by leaders as a means of duping and controlling the constituency.
Adolf Hitler
#25. That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.
Libba Bray
#26. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.
Adolf Hitler
#27. My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.
Dennis Hopper
#28. What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?
Martin Luther
#29. I'm not interested in the wellbeing of society because society is a big lie. Where is society? I only see individual beings and only the individual can grow. Each one is enormous and tremendous in his own way-each one is unique.
Jaggi Vasudev
#30. So let's just forget about the whole thing and agree never to speak of it again. And I promise I'll never lie to you again.
Ah, but surely you must be saying, "Hey! Isn't this entire story a work of fiction and therefore one big lie?"
Perhaps. But we already agreed never to speak of it again.
Jason Carter Eaton
#31. The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.
Joost Meerloo
#32. You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
#33. The broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one. The greater the lie, the greater chance that it will be believed. All epoch-making events have been produced not by the written, but the spoken word.
Adolf Hitler
#34. The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women's inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to recognize it is to risk unravelling the entire fabric of civilization.
Molly Haskell
#36. People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one.
Adolf Hitler
#38. With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. We know everyone we love is going to die, but we don't know it, can't possibly believe it, she thought, or long ago I would have gone and started digging until I had a hole big enough to lie down in.
Rae Meadows
#40. I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.
Kevin Rudd
#41. Bit if you look too long at the small rights, Jake - the ones that lie close at hand - it's easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off. Things are out of joint - going wrong and getting worse. We see it all around us, but the answers are still ahead.
Stephen King
#42. C'mon, honey, don't be mad at me. I don't mean to lie, I just remember big. Buck Preston to CeeCee's neighbor, Miz Goodpepper, in Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Beth Hoffman
#43. To come here and lie about your life you must have very big confidence and courage to do it.
Deyth Banger
#44. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.
Joseph Goebbels
#45. A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#46. If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
Adolf Hitler
#47. Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and he will be certain that you are either telling the truth or a big, important lie.
P. J. O'Rourke
#48. Tell them a lie big enough, they'll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and they'll mock you.
Abhijit Naskar
#49. On each of two porches lie big chunks of serpentine - smooth as talc, mottled black and green. When you see rocks like that on a porch, a geologist is inside.
John McPhee
#50. Right is what all this is about," Roland said. "But if you look too long at the small rights, Jake - the ones that lie close at hand - it's easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off.
Stephen King
#51. My favorite moment is when someone says, 'I like 'Unleashed.' 'Now You See Me' is so much fun.' That's what I want to do: smart, fun and big movies. I cannot lie, I love working with those big paint brushes. I have a blast doing these movies.
Louis Leterrier
#52. That's just it, Carrie. I'm not going to burden you. You would take it all, I can tell. God, it's tempting. You're tempting, and more so than just this," he says, gesturing his hand around the pergola. "You and your big, clear eyes that make me just want to lie down with you and rest.
Mary Ann Rivers
#54. Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
David Mitchell
#55. He'd told her she wouldn't have to do anything but lie on the big down sofa in the front room and read all day, or she could ride her bike to the beach and read.
Ann Patchett
#56. How the fuck do I know that my better is anything more than the great big fat lie we tell ourselves to justify the slow fat nothing of our days.
Claire North
#57. Everyday the opportunity exists to change your life. But most days, the idea of having to change the big things in life just seems like too much work. Should I lie on the couch and watch a movie, or shuld I confront my personal demons?
Jill Davis
#58. If you read 'Lord of the Rings' and dismiss it as a lie because it has orcs and elves, you're missing the whole point of the story. If children don't have to be concerned about strangers because there's no such thing as a Big Bad Wolf dressed like Granny, you're missing the point.
Doug TenNapel
#59. Honest friends is kinda nice, but it's hard to beat a big-ass lie and a six-pack of brewskies.
Lois Greiman
#60. I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.
Adam Rapp
#61. c'mon now, honey, don't be mad at me. I don't mean to lie, I just remember big.
Beth Hoffman
#63. Life is not that simple. That is why it is called life. That word includes both lie and if. Time to figure out which side of the "half" fence you are on: Does your life include a lie or just one big if? There is nothing wrong with either to be honest, but it will make your Sundays longer.
Corey Taylor
#64. Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.
Michael Kinsley
#66. I am a big fan of[Barak] Obama.I'd like to lie on the ground and have him walk over me.
Giovanna Cau
#67. My entire life has been one big, fat whopper of a lie, and my parents betrayed me in the worst possible way.
I don't care if they believed they were protecting me.
You don't lie to the people you profess to love, no matter how painful the truth is.
Siobhan Davis
#68. THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.
L. Ron Hubbard
#69. I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A feature film is much closer to a short story actually.
Pirjo Honkasalo
#70. Pannenberg's conception of retroactive continuity ultimately means that history flows fundamentally from the future into the past, that the future is not basically a product of the past.
E. Frank Tupper
#72. If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.
Theodore Roosevelt
#73. Big is bad is a lie. It's quite possibly the worst lie of all, for if you fear big success, you'll either avoid it or sabotage your efforts to achieve it.
Gary Keller
#74. When your trying to be an adult in a relationship you seriously don't need to lie or front and try to put on this big picture or pseud like your something that your not.
Gabrielle Dennis
#75. Don't fear, dream. Don't lie, tell stories. Don't limit, explore. Don't think, act. Don't try, do. Be original, be you. Most people hide behind their insecurities, and it's a horrible path to take. Dream big, and make something of yourself.
Jacob Michael White
#77. I'm not a big splurger of money, but my guilty pleasures do lie within BMWs. I get roped in.
Tom Felton
#78. A doorman opened the door for me and I went in. The lobby was not quite as big as the Yankee Stadium. It was floored with a pale blue carpet with sponge rubber underneath. It was so soft it made me want to lie down and roll.
Raymond Chandler
#79. Reproductive freedom is not just the ability not to have a child through birth control. It's the ability to have one if and when you want.
Pamela Madsen
#80. My sister, Judy, has always said that she would like to lie in state, propped up in her coffin with her eyes blared wide open, face fixed in a big grin, and have a taped greeting for all her mourners. Something real upbeat and, well, live-sounding, like: 'He-e-e-ey!Cuteshoestellyomamahi!
Jill Conner Browne
#81. To me, truth is the big thing. Constantly you're writing something and you get to a place where your characters could go this way or that and I just can't lie. The characters have gotta be true to themselves.
Quentin Tarantino
#82. People who lie, particularly those who lie really big, can't do it effectively unless they feel that there's a righteous power behind what they're doing. You're entitled to lie because the end justifies the means.
Alex Gibney
#83. In greenside bunkers, the big thing is to adapt your stance to the shot. It's rare that you get a flat lie in the sand, so I make sure to align my body to the slope. Then I blast the ball out by splashing the sand underneath it.
Jordan Spieth
#84. You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.
Helen Thomas
#85. As sweet as it feels, I can't lie here forever curled up in a big ball of fuck-the-world.
Richard Kadrey
#86. One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.
Ted Cruz
#89. Telling the whole truth and nothing but is the ultimate taking care of yourself. I can't tell you how many clients of mine, once they clean up their lie list and resolve the big ones, cure themselves of their own depression.
Lauren Handel Zander
#90. Both the two of us knew it. We watched the lie go up big and slow between us, then it burst like a spit bubble. They always burst before too long.
Stephen Kelman
#91. Some actors have to make a choice. If they have the opportunity to become these huge megastars, making millions and millions of dollars and have to live a lie, that's a choice they have to make. Not that I would ever be a big star, but I just had to live my life the way I saw fit.
Bryan Batt
#92. Any concession made from the truth, big or small, does not create a part-truth; it creates a lie.
Euphrates Arnaut Moss
#93. Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
Adolf Hitler
#94. I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough, it will be believed.
John McCain
#95. They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
John F. Kennedy
#96. Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the stars, never buy a coffee table you can't put your feet on, never pass up a chance to jump on a trampoline, don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#97. If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap.
Richard Belzer
#98. I would like to curl up and become a small thing. About this big. And still. Very still. Have you ever become so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?
Sarah Ruhl
#99. You look great," he said.
It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house."
He laughed. "I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about architecture as a career.
Kristin Hannah
#100. Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
Terry McAuliffe
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