“In your novels do you lie deliberately or just out of ignorance?" Laughter. A murmur of approval. The writer hesitated a few… — José Eduardo Agualusa Copy Share Image
I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Well in two months, it'd be sunbathing time. That made me smile. I enjoyed lying in the sun in a little bikini,… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I was told a lie from the pit of hell: that my baby was just a blob of tissue. The aftermath of… — Jennifer O'Neill Copy Share Image
The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
“Kate stared, her expression carved in ice. And then she came close, close enough for him to see the glint of silver… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Find your true weakness and surrender to it. Therein lies the path to genius. Most people spend their lives using their strengths… — Moshe Feldenkrais Copy Share Image
Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata… — Charles Correa Copy Share Image
While making "Possessed", I wept each morning on my drive to the studio, and I wept all the way back home. I… — Joan Crawford Copy Share Image
I'm different now, but back then I used to be the type of guy who would say, “I like you. Do you… — Yunho Copy Share Image
Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
It seems like the big difference between good art and so-so art lies somewhere in the art's heart's purpose, the agenda of… — David Foster Copy Share Image
Part of the pleasure of editing 'Vogue,' one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine, is being able to feature… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
Beloved, whatever we are gripping to bring us satisfaction is a lie-unless it is Christ. He is the Truth that sets us… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan was an actor. Not at all a factor, Just an employee of the country's real masters. Just like the Bushes,… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street.… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I see lies everywhere - switch on the television, it's lies. Everything is lies. In the art world or science community, we… — Paola Pivi Copy Share Image
All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“So you just kill people for power." "As do you." "How dare you-" He laughs, loud. "You're free to lie to yourself,… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to… — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“So I'd stabbed needles into my eyes and pretended not to see certain things. Bad things. Only by turning my back on… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
Trump is an intemperate, mean-spirited, lying bully. If a man like that asked you for permission to marry your daughter, what would… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might scar or… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image