Lying Quotes · Page 160

It rolls in grandeur lone-- The stream of Time; And on its shores lie strown The wrecks of every clime.

— Harvey Rice

[On her first meeting with he ex-husband, Steven Seagal:] He reminded me of an alien.

— Kelly LeBrock

You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.

— Ann Voskamp

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

— C. S. Lewis

The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

— Samuel Johnson

I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Lying is an art, if you can convince yourself with lie, then you are a master.”

— Nikhil Yadav

Eternity has no gray hairs. The flowers fade, the heart withers, people grow old and die, the world lies down in the…

— Reginald Heber

If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you:…

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

“Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then…

— Kristen Stewart

Every breath I take becomes deeper, and I become more confident of myself without my crutches. The lies I've filled my body…

— Anonymous

The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.

— Vera Nazarian

The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having…

— James Russell Lowell

The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn't either of…

— Bob Dylan

One day I decided I would like to put a record into my system. So I picked up a record that was…

— Pauline Oliveros

What is it that we all believe in that we cannot see or hear or feel or taste or smell — this…

— Anonymous

Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on…

— Alfred North Whitehead

He's not a liar at all. Not about important things. He'll tell you horrible truths, but he won't lie." She paused before…

— Cassandra Clare

The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and…

— Jeanette Winterson

When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals.…

— Meridel Le Sueur

I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son…

— Anonymous

But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.

— Ellen Wittlinger

All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

— Anonymous

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

— John Ruskin

Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.

— William Shakespeare

“Hiding who you were isn't lying about who you are. But it isn't doing anyone else a damn bit of good.”

— Amber Neko Meador

In love, I've been a deceiver. But I realized being honest is so much easier than lying and being deceitful.

— Luke James

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

— Terry Gilliam

Oh how sweet to work for God all day, and then lie down at night beneath His smile.

— Anonymous

It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.

— Christopher Marlowe

I want to tell more stories about lying, dual lives, self-deception - those are my favorites.

— Courtney A. Kemp

“The world should stop lying to kids because they've always been brutally honest with us.”

— Adam Silvera

Ultimate questions will always lie beyond the scope of empirical science as it is.

— Paul Davies

Mindfulness is a pause -- the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.

— Tara Brach

Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie,

— Jean-Luc Godard

The greatest reward lies in making the discovery; recognition can add little or nothing to that.

— Franz Ernst Neumann

Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan