Devious Lies Quotes

#1. Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can be lies that undermine national security or lies that make a child feel better. And each type might involve a unique neural pathway.

Robin Marantz Henig

#2. The funny thing for me is, I have never lived in a network world.

Matt Nix

#3. The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr.

Thomas Szasz

#4. Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.

J.G. Ballard

#5. It is common to learn from experience what we already believe, then repeat the experience to prove what we believe we learned. The process was invented by religion and perfected by science.

Dee Hock

#6. The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

Michael Graves

#7. In India nearly everybody spoke metaphorically except the English who spoke bluntly and could make their most transparent lies look honest as a consequence; whereas any truth contained in these metaphorical rigmaroles was so deviously presented that it looked devious itself.

Paul Scott

#8. Is the square root of hate the same thing as love times love?

Eugene Mirman

#9. Having two women - one who can't know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life - is clearly difficult for him.

Jennifer Harrison

#10. Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.

Dylan Thomas

#11. She knows, every part of her knows, that she wants to kiss him. That he wants to kiss her. All of her skin prickles with longing. Her insides fizz. (The Lady and the Fox)

Kelly Link

#12. I had no issues with lesbians, but I didn't swing the bat that way, and I kind of resented getting molested.

Gini Koch

#13. I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

Emily Saliers

#14. I had not yet learned to appreciate the slowly gliding drift of identical things; chunks of time spun past me like meteorites in a universe predicated on repetition.

Don DeLillo

#15. Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#16. How do we keep convincing young people to die in fights they didn't start for reasons we're too devious to tell the truth about? It's way too easy for governments to spend other people's blood. Maybe only the sons and daughters of those who declare the wars should be allowed to fight and die.

Dan Groat

#17. I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.

Jack Kirby

#18. I still like the stuff from the old days: Marvin Gaye, Donnie Hathaway.

Joe Cocker

#19. Or. I hate that word. It's two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.

Jodi Picoult

#20. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Allen Ginsberg