Stop Telling Lies Quotes

#1. When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.

Elana Dykewomon

#2. In great humility, we find our strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

David Foster Wallace

#4. (Adlai Stevenson once said to Richard Nixon: If you stop telling lies about me I'll stop telling the truth about you.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. For years, she'd mistaken habit and affection for true love. She had assumed that the love she gave her husband was a reflection of the love he felt for her, and now, because of her blindness, she was alone.

Kristin Hannah

#6. My family life, my adoption - it could be related to the songs, but I think the songs are deeper than that. They're not just about this experience.

Angel Olsen

#7. When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

Melinda Gates

#8. Law it is ... which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.

Marsilio Ficino

#9. I am an honest man by nature, but as I live in society I try not to arouse anyone's resentment and sometimes I am compelled to lie in this endeavour. As soon as honesty becomes compatible with daily social life, I will stop telling such lies.

Soseki Natsume

#10. A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Oswald Chambers

#11. I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

Shane Carruth

#12. An empty man is full of himself.

Edward Abbey

#13. Don't let your failures define you.

Barack Obama

#14. Without looking, I felt his stare burn my skin. A burn way more pleasurable than bacon grease. I had him. He just didn't know it yet.

Lynn Vroman

#15. I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#16. I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

Gail Kelly

#17. It all made perfect sense, and at the same time, nothing seemed to make sense at all.

Nicholas Sparks

#18. We stopped in the unimaginable softness (293).

Jack Kerouac