Lying Quotes · Page 484

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

— Douglas MacArthur

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And…

— Steve Guttenberg

Well then," Roen said briskly, "are you sleeping?" "Yes." "Come now. A mother can tell when her son lies. Are you eating?"…

— Kristin Cashore

The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no…

— William Hazlitt

“I may have people lying to me, but since I don't really know the truth, I can't be sure.”

— Sue Grafton

I was lying ten and had a thirty-five foot putt. I whispered over my shoulder: "How does this one break?" And my…

— Jack Lemmon

“The entire gamut of scandal, hate, and lying is prepared for a poor man in this world who dares to work for…

— Christina Stead

What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin.

— Jessica Hahn

Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that…

— Edmund Waller

[Donald Trump] has really started his political activity based on this racist lie that our first black president was not an American…

— Hillary Clinton

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

— Anonymous

I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one…

— Storm Jameson

There's an expression, "God is in the details," and it applies to nothing more than it does to the writing of fiction.…

— Donna Levin

They say it's not the snoring itself but those anxiety-packed moments in between snorts. It's the waiting for the nasal passages of…

— Sloane Crosley

So, in addition to being a full-time father of two and everything else in life, it isn't so much that I'm sitting…

— DJ Shadow

The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.

— Matt Ridley

Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth.

— Bob Arum

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

— Allan Massie

It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you…

— Charles Yu

One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

— Christian Friedrich Hebbel

If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart…

— John Bunyan

I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie…

— Stephen Jay Gould