Lying Quotes · Page 116

There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned

— Henry Timrod

The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.

— Edwin Powell Hubble

The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live.

— Nathaniel Branden

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

— Jean Cocteau

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

— Jonah Lehrer

The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.

— James Rollins

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

— Anonymous

Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.

— William Carey

The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night…

— Cormac McCarthy

Sweet love, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heart. I took your thrust, whereby I since am slain, And I lie disheveled…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in…

— Jesse Ventura

Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put…

— P. G. Wodehouse

It might do wonders for your marriage,” Amelia continued. “It’s lovely to talk to your husband after you’ve been to bed together.…

— Lisa Kleypas

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty,…

— Kathryn Stockett

The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in…

— Joan D. Chittister

The real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development

— Christopher Flavin

Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been…

— Geoff Ryman

“I don’t know why dishonesty has always gotten under my skin. My parents taught me to tell the truth, but come on,…

— Al Franken

When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we…

— Stephen Schwartz

Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an…

— Glenn Beck

We have surface time, which is the time we move through every day, but we need to reach the rhythms of deep…

— John O'Donohue

“Someone says, "I am a liar." Is that person telling the truth? Or lying? If he's telling the truth, then he's not…

— Bun Katsuta

But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at…

— Charlotte Bronte

And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you And there isnt a thing you could possibly do All…

— Michael Grant

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

— Max Eastman

It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

— Karen Marie Moning

Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?

— Bristol Palin

“There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended. ”

— Don DeLillo

Struggle is the father of all things, virtue lies in blood, leadership is primary and decisive

— Adolf Hitler

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

— Ernest Hemingway

I am merely a guest, born in this world to know the secrets that lie beyond it.

— Rumi

A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.

— Carl Sandburg

I can handle the fights and the arguments but lying to me is a whole different story.

— Rachel

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

— William Shakespeare

The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

— Molly Ringwald

The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.

— Barbara Cook

I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.

— Denise Levertov

Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.

— Cyril Connolly

It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.

— Emmylou Harris

The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down.

— Adolf Hitler