Lying Quotes · Page 113

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

If I lie down on my bed I must be here, But if I lie down in my grave I may be…

— Stevie Smith

Youre only what you tell yourself you are. And lying to yourself can only get you so far.

— Anonymous

All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.

— Aminatta Forna

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

— Adrian Rogers

If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.

— Banana Yoshimoto

MAN’S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.

— Napoleon Hill

More of the symbols are stock (does [Bob] Dylan really have hogs lying out in the mud somewhere? I doubt it), but…

— Jay Michaelson

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I'd be lying to you if I said at 8 I went up to my parents and said, 'Listen, I'm going to…

— Eugene Simon

It doesn't matter in the end who wins and loses cause we're just here havin fun. And I'm totally lying. It always…

— Ve Neill

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you…

— Henry David Thoreau

I deliberately state my age because it keeps me honest. I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going…

— Rita Moreno

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

— Mason Cooley

I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can…

— Neil Young

Thus the key to happiness lies not in changing our genetic makeup (which is impossible) and not in changing our circumstances (i.e.,…

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our…

— Herbert Hoover

Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a…

— Oriana Fallaci

I believe that the greatest truths of the universe don't lie outside, in the study of the stars and the planets. They…

— Anita Moorjani

When the sun died, I went up to heaven and saw God and all the people who had died a long time…

— Wovoka

The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in…

— A. E. Waite

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and…

— Aristotle

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

— Vernon Howard

Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.

— Caroline B. Cooney

Dogs - putting the lie to the age-old saying, I could never love anyone who ate a diaper.

— Dana Gould

“Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told? ('Lives' - the 'v' is silent.)”

— William Boyd

“The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.”

— Jennifer Crusie

All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.

— Anonymous

All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.

— Alister E. McGrath

Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

— Jane Smiley

Any player wants to feel important, wants to play and anyone who says otherwise is lying.

— Joao Cancelo

I once buggered a man unconscious. I'm lying, he was already unconscious when I found him

— Tom Deacon

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.

— Anonymous

Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.

— John Tuzo Wilson

In the distance, he could see Molly lying in the tall grass off to the side of the house.

— Nicholas Sparks

Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.

— Eartha Kitt

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

— Glen Cook