So it's not a matter of the military lying to the press, but it's the job of the military to deny the… — David Hackworth Copy Share Image
All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps -… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
“The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately distinguishes the… — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
Success lies in doing not what others consider to be great but what you consider to be right. — John Gray Copy Share Image
I told myself it was the snow—she couldn’t possibly get to Philadelphia on the roads. I told myself a hundred lies. Children… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation… — Thomas Nixon Carver Copy Share Image
Men do not live by truth alone; they also need lies: those that they invent freely, not those that are imposed on… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Set goals that don't feel all that easy, that challenge you, stimulate you, and give you a chance to stretch and push… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again. — Dagmar Godowsky Copy Share Image
I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would… — Bruce Jenner Copy Share Image
Look, like Xzibit, I don't really dig politics because to me, they're all liars. It's just who's lying the best and who's… — B-Real Copy Share Image
Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
You're a Dhampir," I breathed. "So are you." he teased. "Yeah, but I just thought—" "That I was human? Because of the… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nobody told me you were cheating, it's just a feeling I had. So if I'm right, you got to lie to me,… — Brook Benton Copy Share Image
