Lying Quotes · Page 134

I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.

— Olga Broumas

A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.

— Lee Trevino

The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.

— Alexander Herzen

The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.

— Andre Malraux

To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

— Francis Quarles

The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

— Mark Twain

When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.

— Clement of Alexandria

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

— Saint Augustine

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table.…

— Nicole Krauss

Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against…

— Carl Jung

The truth is every problem can't be solved by government. Many are caused by the moral breakdown in our society. And the…

— Marco Rubio

Now I have realized what the lie is. If I became a tsar, no one would ever dare to tell me a…

— Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia

There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our…

— Christiaan Huygens

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses…

— Max Lerner

“Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter…

— John Updike

The US have dealt with Iran. I'm not saying attack it; I'm saying we should have taken it seriously. The Iranian connection…

— Robert Baer

It is not humility to underrate yourself. Humility is to think of yourself as God thinks of you. It is to feel…

— Charles Spurgeon

No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying…

— Lewis B. Smedes

I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and a blog. Someone without those things will use…

— Tao Lin

Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water…

— George Bird Grinnell

My preference will always be theatre because it's where my heart lies and it's what I started with and eventually I want…

— Gemma Arterton

The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name but…

— Adam Weishaupt

Aren't the clouds beautiful? I could just lie here all day, and watch them drift by...

— Charles M. Schulz

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

— Lois Lowry

An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.

— Annie Dillard

I don't like anything too heavy. Something I can read, you know, lying in bed that takes me to different world.

— Georgia Toffolo

I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

— Evan Dando

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

— William Faulkner

Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

— Nadeem Aslam

Their record is a little bit deceiving. I still think they are a very good team.

— Laura Halldorson

Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

— Margaret Mead

Success is not built on what we accomplish for ourselves. Its foundation lies in what we do for others.

— Danny Thomas

Once I catch you in one lie, it makes me question everything you said.

— Frank Ocean

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

— Oswald Chambers

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

— Billy Corgan

Beauty lies mainly, above all, in personality, not in the skin.

— Eva Longoria

“I said with perfect honesty, "I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.”

— Robin McKinley