Lie Quotes

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother.

I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us.