Lying Quotes

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Building a practice of gratitude is the best way I know to create an optimistic approach to life. Start each day by lying in bed… — Silken Laumann
I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying… — Laurence Olivier
Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce… — P.J. O'Rourke
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. — George Berkeley
There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion. — Benjamin Jowett
The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable. — Matthieu Ricard
Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie? — Sogyal Rinpoche
Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity… — Matthieu Ricard
[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society... — Theophile Gautier
The value of achievement lies in the achieving. — Albert Einstein
I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things. — Dan Rather
Synchronicity is choreographed by a great, pervasive intelligence that lies at the heart of nature, and is manifest in each of us through intuitive knowledge. — Deepak Chopra
People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart of every success.… — John C. Maxwell
To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies.… — Peter McWilliams
The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie. — Harrison Ford
The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Some people try to get out of jury duty by lying. You don't have to lie. Tell the judge the truth. Tell him you'd make… — George Carlin
But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them? — Alexander McCall Smith
Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us. — James Harvey Robinson
Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house,… — Marianne Williamson

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