Lies And Games Quotes

#1. There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else.

Shannon L. Alder

#2. Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

Bobby Jones

#3. Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.

Shannon L. Alder

#4. I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.

Alan Watts

#5. Modern culture anesthetizes the mind while mainlining the soul with emotional experiences that keep the worldling believing he is really living.

Jim Berg

#6. War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. The one of us who lies the best will get the better of the bargain. It's a game. A very exciting game that's played all over the world. Good players got rich, and bad players don't.

David Eddings

#8. The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents-the talks, the games, the family activities and the arguments through which much of the child's learning takes place and his character is formed.

Urie Bronfenbrenner

#9. Don't even try making out I'm making this up. I've got proof. Evidence.

Diane Samuels

#10. Here I am, precious. I give myself freely. All of me, Alayna. No more walls or secrets or games or lies. I give you all of me, honestly. For forever, if you'll take me.

Laurelin Paige

#11. The Word of God is my source of hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. It's like ... I can throw away my whole life trying to help somebody else, but i can only do something for me if I know it doesn't matter.

Dan Wells

#13. For me, marriage worked differently. As a single person, I never felt totally free. My commitment to my marriage freed me. No lies, no mind games, no judging each other. For me, marriage is pure joyful companionship.

Shon Mehta

#14. I've known him a long time. I admire him. Hell, I might even love him. He helped me when - well, he helped me, and I owe him. He never lies, never plays games. He always says what he means and means what he says. And he has made it clear you're off-limits.

Gena Showalter

#15. As far as I'm concerned, that is the end of the matter. We have a big game against Birmingham on Saturday and that is where our focus lies.

Bryan Robson

#16. When you're way too real, fake people be like: You're a trip. I want somebody with real game (lies).

T.F. Hodge

#17. When you 'lie' to me, you don't 'lie down' or lay.
Even after the game you still want to play.

Munia Khan

#18. I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.

Steve Roper

#19. My wild man," I whispered. "My snake charmer."
He closed his eyes and shoved his face in my neck, groaning, "Fuck, Tess."
I turned my head so my lips were at his ear and no lies, no masks, no bullshit, no games, I kept whispering when I told him, "I love you, Brock.

Kristen Ashley

#20. In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil DemiLich.

Ernest Cline

#21. The statistics were not merely inadequate; they lied. And the lies they told led the people who ran major league baseball teams to misjudge their players, and mismanage their games.

Michael Lewis

#22. Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt.

David Bower

#23. There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter - an act.

Vera Nazarian

#24. I realize the answer to who I am lies in that handful of poisonous fruit.

Suzanne Collins

#25. Love hadn't existed in this world. Only hate, deceit and lies, but by letting him in I'd let all of that crumble.
By letting me in he'd done the same, and now we were engaged in an even deadlier game than before.

Cassandra Giovanni

#26. I don't care if it hurts, I'm tired of lies and all these games, I've reached a point in life, and no longer can I be this way, don't come crying to me, I too have shed my share of tears. I'm moving on, yes I'm grooving on.

Ziggy Marley

#27. He is lost in Agamemnon and Odysseus' wily double meanings, their lies and games of power. They have confounded him, tied him to a stake and baited him. I stroke the soft skin of his forehead. I would untie him if I could. If he would let me.

Madeline Miller

#28. I don't think most people take honest well. They prefer the games. They want to believe the pretty lies.

Richelle Mead

#29. A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party ... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

Dan Jenkins

#30. What I find sexy is when someone's having fun and able to look right back at you.

Rosamund Pike

#31. Americans are tired of the games and the lies of today's media. They want the truth. Imagine this. No censors, no barricades, no statists. We will be able to engage viewers directly on subjects that matter most to them, from finances to civil liberties to foreign policy.

Ron Paul