Lie Quotes

I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.

I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.

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.

You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.

I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.

This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them any displeasure for it, for I do not believe them and I do not decide anything until I have found out the truth.

Right now, it's really about my fans knowing that whatever I believed spiritually at the time is what I believed. I just wouldn't deliberately lie to them just to save my image.

We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, that's a total lie. I always think about what's in front of me.