Top 26 Lies Catch Up Quotes
#1. Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every human soul ... And the little helpless buzzings of honest, liberal, kindly people, aren't they like the thin little noise flies make when they're caught?
John Dos Passos
#2. We waste too much time looking for the next thing and not appreciating what we have right now ... and right now, what we have, is endless opportunities.
J.M. Darhower
#3. Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#4. I don't know an England player who could fix a light bulb, let alone a match
Darren Gough
#5. If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
Kathryn Bigelow
#6. The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but with the heritage of equipment accumulated by its forebears.
Robert Heilbroner
#7. A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it's really hard to catch.
Charles M. Blow
#8. If you catch them in an early lie, they learn their lesson and so they don't continue to do it. But if you don't call them on early lies, they only get worse, bigger, and more dangerous.
Glenn Beck
#9. I'm fine," I tell Kirk. "Catch anything?"
"Oh, thank god," he says, and then goes on to tell me about the "big one" that got away, like it always does.
And I wonder how many lies it takes to make the world go around.
Matthew Quick
#11. Time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop, and retreat according to his orders, our mistake lies in imagining that we can catch him out.
Jose Saramago
#12. Nuclear power must be dealt with irrationally ... Nuclear plants are carcinogens. Let's get that story out ... Their lies will catch up to them. We need endless Chernobyl reminders.
Ralph Nader
#13. Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for the trickster and catch him at the first attempt, but beware of an honest man. (said by the author to be a Somali saying)
Louis L'Amour
#14. His life had been wrecked by lies and he'd be falling forever because there was no one to catch him.
Barbara Elsborg
#15. On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We'd go and get me a calf at a cow auction with Amish people, which I would raise. I gave it a bottle every day, in this cute little coop, like a giant dog coop almost. I've always been a big animal person.
Krysten Ritter
#16. Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#17. MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.
Paul Ekman
#18. I am a Shotet. I am sharp as broken glass, and just as fragile. I tell lies better than I tell truths. I see all of the galaxy and never catch a glimpse of it.
Veronica Roth
#19. I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
Emily Bronte
#20. My nose never lies," he boasted. "I can smell defiance, I can smell pride, I can smell disobedience. I catch a whiff of any such stinks, you'll answer for it. When I sniff you, all I want to smell is fear
George R R Martin
#21. One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
Gustave Flaubert
#22. It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.
John Grisham
#23. Regardless of how far a person runs, a lie will eventually catch up to them.
Donald L. Hicks
#24. Lies spread faster than you can catch them.
Amy Tan
#25. Truths are dangerous," he said.
"Then why are you writing them in a book?"
"To catch them between the pages," said Teddy, "and trap them before they disappear.
Kristin Cashore
#26. It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
Edgar Rice Burroughs