Lies Quotes

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.

Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.