Lying Quotes · Page 160

If you focus on what you left behind, you'll never be able to see what lies ahead.

— Anonymous

I soon came to the point where I didn't know whether my smiling face was a lie or not. -Lavi

— Katsura Hoshino

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true

— Elias Canetti

Science is a set of rules that keep the scientists from lying to each other.

— Kenneth Stafford Norris

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

— Ricky Jay

The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.

— Agnes Macphail

Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic…

— Tony Benn

“When you become complacent with someone lying, whether it is a close friend, the media, or your government, then you have essentially…

— Gary Hopkins

I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any way to answer to…

— John Lydon

I did work in a bakery for one day. But the boss went off and when he came back I was lying…

— Noel Fielding

The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around…

— Jack Kornfield

I'm very, very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing, any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased…

— Sarah Palin

THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great…

— L. Ron Hubbard

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've…

— J. K. Rowling

The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in…

— Winston Churchill

In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus…

— Donald Miller

My brothers, seek counsel of one another, for therein lies the way out of error and futile repentance. The wisdom of the…

— Khalil Gibran

In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive…

— Stephen Leacock

...I just pulled a pretty big job and needed to hide out for awhile." "...Where's all the loot?" "That, as my cousin…

— Eoin Colfer

Only--but this is rare-- When a beloved hand is laid in ours, When, jaded with the rush and glare Of the interminable…

— Matthew Arnold

No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when…

— Feist

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

— Jonathan Swift

He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.

— Elliott Smith

I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough, it will be believed.

— John McCain

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

— John Lydon

I don't want to lie, play games, hurt somebody, or get hurt. You can only go forward in one direction.

— Sean Penn

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything.

— Nick Vujicic

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.

— Wynn Bullock

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

— Neil Gaiman

Lovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff

— Adrian Mitchell

The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it

— Erich Maria Remarque

The only thing that I have is the truth, so the only thing I fear is a lie.

— Laurieann Gibson

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

— John Stuart Mill

You can say that designing is quite easy; the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty

— Yohji Yamamoto

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

— Phyllis Bottome

In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my…

— Graham Greene