Lies Quotes

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.

The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.