Lying Quotes · Page 151

The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.

— Edgar Allan Poe

That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

— Rudolf Steiner

The hope of any nation lies in the personal qualities of its individual members.

— Margery Wilson

Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality.

— Mel White

America’s true power lies not in its will to dominate but in its ability to inspire.

— Robert Byrd

Energy never lies. If you work at your right rhythm, you will be more productive trust me.

— Judith Orloff

Perfection in war lies in so sapping your opponents will that he surrenders without fighting.

— Sun Tzu

American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.

— Elena Kagan

People say 'Are you going to retire?' To me, that sort of equates with lying down and dying. When you're doing something…

— Rolf Harris

I still wonder if the United States realizes how much planning went into this. When we talk about "mindless terrorists," we are…

— Robert Fisk

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped…

— Albert Einstein

A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon…

— George Clymer

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do…

— Simone Weil

If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no…

— Amy Tan

To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible…

— William Shenstone

You face adversity all the time. I accept what lies ahead and then I do my best. You can't take things too…

— Kristine Lilly

I want you to stop running from thing to thing to thing, and to sit down at the table, to offer the…

— Shauna Niequist

The West regards marriage as consisting in all that lies beyond the legal tie, while in India it is thought of as…

— Swami Vivekananda

Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that night long ago.…

— Margaret George

If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I…

— William H. Ginsburg

Because many of the films I've made have had an intellectualedge, it's harder for me to lie. It's harder for me to…

— Paul Schrader

Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure…

— Stendhal

It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick…

— Russell Brand

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

— Cyril Connolly

Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.

— Michael Moore

The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.

— Aristippus

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.

— Alice Walker

The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school.

— Terrence E. Deal

I'd rather deal with the consequences of the truth rather than the benefits of a lie.

— Devin Kelley

There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.

— Joseph Goebbels

It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.

— Frederick Mosteller

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

— James Russell Lowell

There is always joy in achieving ,but the greater satisfaction lies in sharing the achievement.

— Kipchoge Keino

It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.

— Noam Chomsky

I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.

— Lily Donaldson

“Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.”

— Jodi Picoult

When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

— Cormac McCarthy