Lying Quotes · Page 68

What I found with depression was that it occurred when I was lying dormant, when I had nothing better to do.

— Bugzy Malone

“I'm trying to stop lying to myself about little things. I'm still working on the big ones.”

— Terry McMillan

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

— Eudora Welty

Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie

— Lauren Oliver

It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

— Audre Lorde

She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

— Maya Angelou

You will Love me and I will end up Lying to you that I LOVE YOU TOO

— Junior Dè Rèál Testament

I do not want to be folded for where I am folded, there I am a lie.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then…

— Kristen Stewart

The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.

— Vera Nazarian

The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn't either of…

— Bob Dylan

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large…

— Polykarp Kusch

The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

You always have to lie. I've been in plays that people don't enjoy and I pray that they lie to my face…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against…

— William Shakespeare

Faith stands or falls on the truth that the future with God is more satisfying than the one promised by sin. Where…

— John Piper

“It hurt so much it took the breath from his throat. ‘You’re lying.’ Damen’s heart was pounding. ‘You’re lying.’ The words were…

— C.S. Pacat

[Kanye West] took me to a fashion meeting in Paris once. I'd never met these people; I was so nervous. It was…

— Kim Kardashian

Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the…

— Jimmy Cliff

And look, we have young people in this country who are thirty years old living with their parents. We have young people…

— Henry Giroux

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half…

— Joseph Campbell

It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe…

— Emma Bull

The landscape, like Los Angeles itself, is transitional. Impermanence haunts the city, with its mushroom industries--the aircraft perpetually becoming obsolete, the oil…

— Christopher Isherwood

It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud.

— Neil Gaiman

I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.

— Waris Dirie

Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.

— Vincent de Paul

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

[Ted Cruz] lies about things that he shouldn't be lying about. He lies about things that don't matter.

— Donald Trump

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

— Mel Gibson

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Isn't Hollywood - and I love movies - a lot of it about a big lie?

— Chris Matthews

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

— Philip Larkin

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

— Jean Rostand

You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.

— William Shakespeare

Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.

— Alan Cohen

Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.

— Joshua Reynolds

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

— Henry David Thoreau

The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.

— Laozi

No lie, just had one of the best times of my life at Rucker park..wow! I love NYHarlem waddup.

— Kevin Durant