Lying Quotes · Page 96

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

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

All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It's nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks…

— Ellen Hopkins

The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it’s dangerous and therefore needs to…

— Tullian Tchividjian

I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt.…

— Richard Chamberlain

The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for…

— Eugene H. Peterson

If you commit perjury in a so-called first-degree murder case, and you're caught red-handed for the entire world to see, and you…

— Johnnie Cochran

Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon…

— Dallas Willard

Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the…

— Belle Starr

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

— Israel Zangwill

Labor is rest--from the sorrow that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat…

— Frances Sargent Osgood

Folks, Brian Williams isn't the exception. He's exactly what they've taught us to expect from them all. It's not journalism any more…

— Wayne LaPierre

What I've discovered from working with my father is that I'm still learning. I'm just a kid in this business. And I've…

— Scott Eastwood

The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to…

— Mark Rydell

Something therefore always remains and sticks from the most imprudent of lies, a fact which all bodies and individuals concerned in the…

— Adolf Hitler

I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a…

— Mikhail Lermontov

Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By…

— Wallace Stegner

One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall…

— Joseph Addison

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

— Sappho

Show me a person who doesn't like french fries and we'll swap lies.

— Joan Lunden

Anybody who has played sports and says they have never choked is lying to you.

— Pete Sampras

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

— Anonymous

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

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

— Michel de Montaigne

Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.

— Sholom Aleichem

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.

— Morgan Saylor

The DMK and the Communists may have the habit of lying, but I don't come from a family that lies.

— Tamilisai Soundararajan

Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.

— Maya Angelou

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any person lies in action.

— Pindar

A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to…

— Charles M. Blow

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Share ownership of your ideas. The more people who lie awake in bed thinking about your idea, the better.

— Scott Belsky

Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.

— Anonymous