Quotes About Lying To Protect Yourself

#1. Then the ogre fell down and broke his crown, and the beanstalk came toppling after.

Joseph Jacobs

#2. You don't protect any of your individual liberties by lying down and going to sleep.

John T. Scopes

#3. Craziest thing I ever did for love? It's all crazy. None of it makes any sense, does it, when you're in love with someone. It doesn't make any logical sense. I guess that's why they call it being in love.

Vince Vaughn

#4. We don't lie to protect the other person. We lie to protect ourselves from the consequences. We lie because we don't want to deal with our own feelings. We lie because we don't want things to change. Not by our hand. So a wall starts to build.

Elisa Marie Hopkins

#5. In that moment, lying there on the floor in agony, he realized that was why his feelings for Liv had so drastically changed. Earlier, she had actually gotten up and attacked one of the men, trying to protect him. Him. A complete bastard who never did anything for anyone.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#6. The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.
It's for their own good.

Sophie Kinsella

#7. Keeping a secret isn't always lying. Sometimes it's the only way to protect the person you love.

Jodi Picoult

#8. Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don't care. I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good.

Suzanne Collins

#9. I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.

Ali MacGraw

#10. She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can't believe her, even if I could believe her.


shit got to be real

sahi.

Loveless

#11. You lying sneak."
"All this time pretending to be a wolfblood's best friend, then spying on us."
"You don't understand. I did it to protect ya. When you secret gets out, i'll have the evidence to prove that you're not evil

Debbie Moon

#12. The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.

Merle Shain

#13. Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.

Anton Chekhov

#14. I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#15. I was good at fabricating the truth when necessary to protect someone, even myself.

Matt Abrams

#16. Honesty renders your heart defenceless, and lying fucks with your head. That's why I choose to remain silent and protect them both instead.

K.M. Golland

#17. The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest

David James Duncan

#18. If you don't say it's wrong, then you're telling them you agree.

Kim Harrison

#19. To unlock the heavy outer door and to walk into the hushed interior, with the morning light spilling from the high windows on to the waiting books, gave her such pleasure that she would have worked for nothing.

Sue Townsend

#20. From the accident, and she seemed weak to him. It

Danielle Steel

#21. People's need to protect their own egos know no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, even kill, to do whatever it takes to maintain what we call ego boundries.

Andrew Samuels

#22. When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.

Jose Bergamin

#23. When one is under pressure, one may lie in order to protect the religion, this is taught in the Qur'an.

Robert Spencer

#24. Once you tell a lie, the truth is your enemy; and every truth connected to that truth, and every ally of truth in general; all of these you must oppose, to protect the lie. Whether you're lying to others, or to yourself.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#25. Yeah, it didn't work like that because lies cannot protect

Danielle Bernock

#26. A lie has forgiveness. A deceive doesn't. The difference is in lying to protect and deceiving to harm.

Eulalia Marques

#27. As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.

Robin Hayes

#28. I don't believe in vitamin pills. I swear by men, darling-and as many as possible.

Joan Collins

#29. What if the rat returns? I donna think ye'd want to be lying flat on the pallet if he does."
She swatted at him. "That's why I have you and my dagger to protect me."
"Me, aye. Your dagger, nae so much.

Victoria Roberts

#30. Give me romance.
Flash.
Give me denial.

Chuck Palahniuk

#31. What I want to do is make sure middle class kids, not Donald Trump's kids, get to be able to afford college.

Hillary Clinton

#32. Let our lives be firmly rooted in Truth. Abstain from lies. In this dark age of materialism, adherence to truth is the greatest austerity. We might have to tell lies now and then to protect somebody or to sustain dharma, but we must be careful not to speak lies for our own selfish purposes.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#33. I'm very romantic when I masturbate. Sometimes I light a candle ... then I try and shoot it out. It's like a carnival.

Dave Attell

#34. I don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else.

Eliza Dushku

#35. Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own.

James Madison

#36. Excision of my genitals didn't eliminate the human sex drive, and neither did the fear of hellfire. Repression only led to hypocrisy and lying, strategies that corrupt the human individual, and it failed to protect people from unwanted pregnancy and disease. The

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#37. Man by the Fall fell at the same time from his state of innocence and from his dominion over nature. Both of these losses, however, can even in this life be in some part repaired; the former by religion and faith, the latter by the arts and sciences.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#38. I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.

Assata Shakur

#39. If Jesus didn't rise from the dead, an even greater miracle happened: 12 relatively uneducated guys changed the world and were martyred to protect a lie.

Mark Hart

#40. We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms

John Connolly