Lying Quotes · Page 128

Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

— Anonymous

Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥

— Everett Ruess

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

— Anne Frank

Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do,

— Tim Waterstone

The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.

— Isaac Asimov

The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone.

— Sappho

I sometimes joke that when I die, my tombstone will say, 'Here lies the guy who hired Jonathan Ive,'

— Robert Brunner

Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land,…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

...and he just sat back and stared at the tube, almost interested in what was happening, trying to find the ability to…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

I think it’s safe to say that the entire abortion industry is based on a lie…. I am dedicated to spending the…

— Norma McCorvey

To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true…

— Confucius

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

— Edmundo Desnoes

In brainwashing communism deceit lies manipulation marxism socialism truth A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

— Vladimir Lenin

I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.

— Pat Paulsen

I don't have time for lie-on-the-beach vacations. I'm a zoo person. There's one in New Jersey where animals actually come up to…

— Missy Elliot

But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the…

— Charles Bukowski

“More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure,…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a…

— Anne Rice

Friends never cheat on each other, or take advantage, or lie. Friends do not spy on one another, yet they have no…

— Stephen Ambrose

The resurrection is the keystone of the arch on which our faith is supported. If Christ has not risen, we must impeach…

— Dwight L. Moody

It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of…

— Wilfred Bion

Let's not be naive, we're not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God.…

— Pope Francis

"No one is doing what we're doing." This is a bummer of a lie because there are only two logical conclusions. First,…

— Guy Kawasaki

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

the chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies.

— Gwen Raverat

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.

— Isaiah

Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.

— Joyce Meyer

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.

— Richard Wilbur

The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.

— Dalai Lama

The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.

— Homer

The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.”

— Russian proverb

I only lie for sex or money or to practice for when I need to lie for sex or money.

— Stephen Schneider

Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best.

— J. K. Rowling

The English follow the principle that when one lies, it should be a big lie, and one should stick to it.

— Joseph Goebbels

It's ridiculous, but it's horrible going bald. Anyone who says it isn't is lying.

— James Nesbitt

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

— Thomas Carlyle