Lie Quotes

I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.

There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.

Actions lie louder than words.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.

A lie cannot live.

When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.

I know where my priorities lie.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.