Top 100 Quotes About Lies
#1. Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.
Ronald Reagan
#3. True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.
Og Mandino
#4. Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.
Damian Loeb
#5. Once a month I wake in the night, slippery with terror. I'm afraid, not because there's someone in the room, in the dark, in the bed, but because there isn't. I'm afraid of the emptiness, which lies beside me like a corpse.
Margaret Atwood
#7. Everyone has got something to gift. Your gift lies in the flame of your soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#8. The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.
Arthur W. Pink
#9. Silent lies are more venomous than cruel truths
Ben Oliveira
#10. Here lies the bodies of three brothers... enwrapt in silence and the Arms of Death, Exposed to Worms lies three once charming Boys... 1784
Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
#11. But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.
Ally Carter
#12. Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.
Louis Farrakhan
#13. My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.
Margot Asquith
#14. It was the sort of smile that lies on sandbanks waiting for incautious swimmers.
Terry Pratchett
#15. In my end lies my beginning" Who said that? Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587).
Danny Saunders
#16. Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.
T. S. Eliot
#17. How do we break this cycle of adding to the unconsciousness on the planet? The answer lies in seeing that our true nature consists ONLY of love, and so that is ALL we have to give [and see] when we know ourselves as that ...
Mike Jeffries
#18. But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!
Ernestine Rose
#19. Lies suck; they tear you apart from the inside out.
Tyler Hamilton
#20. I may know I am better than an 18, but the computer absorbs my scores year after year and continues to tell me that is what I am. Therein lies the tragedy of golf. We know what we should be, but there is always some number telling us what it is ...
Peter Andrews
#21. I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
P. J. O'Rourke
#22. All I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies.
Rebecca Makkai
#23. Don't be a fool! Close this book at once! It is nothing but foma!
Foma, of course, are lies.
Kurt Vonnegut
#24. You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.
Stephen Spender
#25. My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#26. We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
Marcel Proust
#27. Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.
Paula Abdul
#28. There could never be a more beautiful you; dont buy the lies, disguises and hoops they make you jump through; you were made to fill a purpose that only you could do; so there could never be a more beautiful you.
Jonny Diaz
#29. We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to ... because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.
Douglas Kennedy
#30. Truth without love kills, but love without truth lies.
Eberhard Arnold
#31. Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are.
Jack Ma
#32. The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.
Wallace Stevens
#34. The best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe
Jasper Fforde
#35. Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.
Timothy Findley
#36. Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.
Leo Tolstoy
#37. But solitude is sadness.'
'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.
Charlotte Bronte
#38. Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
Al Franken
#39. In my defense, I could have dispensed with the truth entirely and told a much better story. Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense. Losi
Patrick Rothfuss
#40. With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.
Azar Nafisi
#41. When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.
Arthur M. Wellington
#42. Herein lies one of the most tragic elements to emerge from my research: that every black parent of a teenage child I spoke to had factored in the possibility that this might happen to their kid. Indeed,
Gary Younge
#44. I always wondered about growing up. I bet it's mostly lies.
Stephen King
#45. If we buy into our culture's lies about manhood and leadership, we will never place our trust in God alone.
Bill Mills
#46. I maintain that (as usual) many sides exist to this issue rather than only two. Two-sided issues (creationism vs darwinism, "choice" vs "pro-life," etc.) are all without exception delusions, spectacular lies.
Hakim Bey
#47. The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
Jean De La Bruyere
#48. I'm the first kid to write of hearts, lies, and friends, and I'm sorry my conscience called in sick again. I've got arrogance down to a science.
Pete Wentz
#49. How silent lies the world
Within fair twilight furled,
Bringing such sweet relief!
A quiet room resembling,
Where, without fear or trembling,
You sleep away day's grief.
Matthias Claudius
#50. In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.
George Santayana
#51. I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather, the desire for something unknown, animate desire for something that lies beyond ourselves, a longing for something we know is missing in us ...
Bernadette Roberts
#53. Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
Jonathan Swift
#54. The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.
Thomas Merton
#55. The Light is full of lies, Acolyte. The Suns serve only to blind us.
Jay Kristoff
#56. I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can't have that in public life.
Seymour Hersh
#57. Because we both knew that sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.
Brock Clarke
#58. The real quality of existence lies in our thoughts, which wear no silks and taste no ice creams.
Kelly Moore
#59. It is not a ridiculous question. It is a very simple one. The difficulty lies in the answer. Why do you love her?
Renee Ahdieh
#60. Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
Thomas Carlyle
#61. But in simplicity lies truth. In simplicity lies power.
Kamal Ravikant
#62. The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#63. Foremost, step one could take is avoiding the cheap behaviour of compromising principles with decorated lies which assails the moral power of common sense.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#65. Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely.
Paulo Coelho
#66. To put it one way, a collection of Shakespeare's plays is richer than a phone book that uses the same number of letters; to put it another, the essence of information lies in the relationships among bits, not their sheer number.
Hans Christian Von Baeyer
#67. But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength.
Benjamin Franklin
#68. Nobody thought the direct business model would work. But work it did, and spectacularly. Until it didn't. And therein lies the tale.
Heather Simmons
#69. In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
Audre Lorde
#70. I lie constantly. All the time. I'm nothing but one big mass of lies.
Kiersten White
#71. Well thank you, me old gobbler,' said Mr. Gum handing over some money that Billy William would later discover to be made out of lies and broken promises.
Andy Stanton
#72. To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.
Anna Pavlova
#73. Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.
Charles De Lint
#74. Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act ...
Aristotle.
#75. Through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted and unexplored, a world that lies waiting to be discovered and revealed.
Edward Weston
#76. Disinformation is a large part of its[CIA] covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies.
Ralph McGehee
#77. Some things in life are just to complicated to explain in any language.'
Olga was absolutely right, Tsukuru thought as he sipped his wine. Not just to explain to others, but to explain to yourself. Force yourself to try to explain it, and you create lies.
Haruki Murakami
#78. Some people are like branches. They sway away even with a gentle breeze. Others, the ones like roots, can only be shaken if there is a hurricane.
Stay with latter - they keep the relationship stable. And, do remember not to stir the hurricane by lies or deceit.
#Stability
Saru Singhal
#79. Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.
J.K. Rowling
#80. The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#81. The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.
Walker Evans
#83. P.J. said, "That's true about any statement we make, isn't it? We never tell as much as we know."
"Right! So We're lying. So almost every statement is a lie, we can't help it."
"Yeah. But some statements are more lies than others.
Joyce Carol Oates
#84. The existence of true religion is predicated on the practice of goodness. Goodness is Godliness. There is nothing else. Religion lies in practice, not in bookish theories.
Abhijit Naskar
#86. The truth is always the truth, although if a lie has been repeated enough, especially by a figure of authority, the general population will begin to see those lies as truth.
Joseph P. Kauffman
#87. But idealists of course are unpredictable. They tend to be the ones who turn bitter overnight, deceived by lies they've told themselves.
Don DeLillo
#89. I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.
E. M. Forster
#90. Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power.
Sathya Sai Baba
#91. Baggage is just the lies you tell yourself about the way things are. Those lies clutter up and obscure a clear perception of the world and other people.
Annette Vaillancourt
#92. Some we call players and some we call prizes, but when the pain comes and the game of mind begins, we are all the same, all naked and alone without riches or health or status, armed with only the strength that lies within us. Win or lose, live or die, it is up to us and us alone.
George R R Martin
#93. Forget the past... "I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead." - Philippians 3:13b
Lisa Cheater
#94. It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world.
Timothy B. Tyson
#95. Increasingly, Sawtooth's own memories are a loud bright muddle, like opening the door on a party full of strangers. He lies awake at night, limping down the long corridors of his memory, trying to find the girl's hands, ...
Karen Russell
#96. The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.
Martin Luther
#97. I would like it to be said: here lies a man who has done his duty on earth
Nelson Mandela
#99. Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
Blaise Pascal
#100. 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
