Lies Quotes

We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

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

People for the most part can smell lies.

I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.

As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don't need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East.

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.

It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

The test of any man lies in action.

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.

American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.