Lie Quotes

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.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.

Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.

A lie never lives to be old.

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.

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

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.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.