Lying Quotes · Page 104

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

— Edward Abbey

It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn…

— George Harrison

I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.

— Elvis Presley

If I lie down on my bed I must be here, But if I lie down in my grave I may be…

— Stevie Smith

There's a fire that burns away the lies, manifesting in the spiritual eye.

— George Harrison

At least she had a clear picture of what the Lying Game was now: Girl Scouts for psychopaths.

— Sara Shepard

Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is.

— Ram Dass

The idea is to just stop. Just wait. Don't react. Therein lies the whole universe. Just don't react.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?

— Adolf Hitler

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us…

— James Dickey

You don't fear me," he said now. She wasn't stupid enough to lie. "I'm petrified. But I figure you didn't make me…

— Nalini Singh

Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind,…

— Samuel Lover

“Is it possible to live reasonably without lying? Do lies form the natural foundation of all human relationships, the thread that stitches…

— William Boyd

We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies…

— Marge Piercy

Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole.…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Perfect definition of atheist dogma. Your mind has been subjected to subtle mental conditioning year after year. Now the atheist lie has…

— Vladimir Lenin

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.…

— Thomas Jefferson

Chess computers do not sweat during time pressure and commit costly blunders. Furthermore, the strength of these programs (over and above their…

— Ira Carmen

To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also…

— Frederick Lenz

The problem is not in the food... The problem lies in the mind. It lies in our lack of awareness of the…

— Jan Chozen Bays

“It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and see the ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in…

— Anonymous

But housekeeping is fun. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. You may work all…

— Gladys Taber

Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of…

— Deb Caletti

In death, lie. In living, cry. Carry me home to remember to be remembered.

— Kami Garcia

The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds.

— William C. Bryant

“I'm going to kill you, you lying cocksucker." -Annie Wilks”

— Stephen King

“This is where he had ended up, lying on his back, trying to forget himself.”

— Neil Walker

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.

— Tahereh Mafi

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

— Victor Hugo

If lying was a job, I know some people who would be a billionaire.

— Anonymous

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

— John Hodgman

People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.

— Zephyr Teachout

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

— Philip Larkin

I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.

— Rumi

“[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?”

— Laurence Olivier

I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.

— Alice Hoffman

I don't see how you could get used to people screaming in your face, and anyone who says different is lying.

— Niall Horan

Your brand's power lies in dominance. It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.

— Al Ries

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

— Amy Tan