Quotes about lie

The waves lie on the beach Your hair on your back of angel. (Les vagues s’allongent sur la plage - Tes cheveux sur ton dos d’ange. )

Stay in your room write your own books because everything outside this room is a lie.

I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social anxieties and romantic insecurities and all that stuff.

Oh, I talk about things; I drive my husband insane. And I can't tell a lie. Everyone knows. I do this smile thing.

Don't disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile in my face and act like nothing's wrong.

Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.

It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.

Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

Belief in God meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah and I would not pretend I did not know whether it existed or not.

Children need the lie to be brave enough to sleep in their beds parents need it to be able to get up the next morning.

Take back your power! I wish you the wisdom to realize that the problem isn't that they keep lying to you it's that you keep believing them.

There were two and only two messages that could have been comprehended by what he said.But neither of them was soothing neither of them was a lie.

They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

Live a life of lies die a death of truths.

They do everything to make you fail but when you win they all start kissing your shoes to be part of the game.

If the only prayer you said is ‘The Lord’s Prayer’ it is enough.

Take back your power! I wish you the wisdom to realize that the problem isn’t that they keep lying to you it’s that you keep believing them.

Never let money be the reason why you betray your close companion. You may not have the joy to spend it because you are supposed to enjoy that money with that companion you betrayed! Do not love money love the reason for which money exist.

Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.

Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

You have nothing if you're texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push 'reply all.' I mean, since we're lying, we might as well lie to everybody.

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I'm not going to lie to you, I've got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes and it's like a pageant.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to camera without blinking. And he is gifted with some of the most incompetent conservative opposition in the history of the country.

One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college, you're going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.

I am criticizing a culture that has sold the big lie that 'Mom doesn't matter.'

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.

People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

Most days, I have a slice of toast, then lie in a hot bath for an hour to get up a sweat. I have a sauna at the racecourse and then go and ride. On the way home, I might stop at a service station and have a bar of chocolate and a Diet Coke. And that's it, basically.

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear I can't lie.

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

No lie ever reaches old age.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.