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5942 Lies quotes by 3132 unique authors

Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a room alone –… — Les Standiford
This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory… — Timothy Keller
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection, and… — Umair Haque
If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it… — Adyashanti
I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors I have consistently… — Ross McKitrick
Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us. — Jacqueline Novogratz
The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. .… — Unknown Author
The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love couldn't be moved by circumstance, poor choices, or even blatant lies-skewed and damaged, yes, but the heart couldn't deny what it wanted most once… — Rachel Wade
The concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while… — John Stott
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. — Cesare Pavese
Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a… — Rainer Maria Rilke
They'd rather hate you for the truth than love you for the lies. — Kirk Jones
Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth. — Peter Sellers
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth. — Jean Cocteau
Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies… — Ronald Reagan
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it… — Thomas Jefferson
We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of… — George W. Bush
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. — Gail Caldwell
He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood. — Robert Kennedy
The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices when… — Mark Rydell
The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of… — Leon Trotsky
How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that… — Vincent Van Gogh
Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most… — Ayn Rand
As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it,… — Junipero Serra

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