Lie Quotes - page 12

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause. If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and lose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well - in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit. (Mikhail Bakunin)
A lie travels round the world, while Truth is putting on her boots. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
The system is wrong. I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of 'U. S. soldier' is just the lie of fools. View quote
Bowe Bergdahl
I didn't lie; nobody calls me a liar, I may have increased my age. View quote
Frank Buckles
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie. View quote
I. F. Stone
Hollywood is a place where some people lie on the beach and look up at the stars, whereas other people lie on the stars and look down at the beach. View quote
Noël Coward
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up. View quote
Charles M. Schulz
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.' View quote
Charles M. Schulz
There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain. View quote
Edwin Muir
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie. View quote
Horace Walpole
You're an attorney! It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody. (Jean Giraudoux)
The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and wilfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought. View quote
Iain Banks
When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it. View quote
Diego Luna
But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart. View quote
Michael Chabon
In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time. View quote
Michael Chabon
If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing. View quote
Terry Eagleton
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The subtlest lie of all is the full truth. View quote
Michael Moorcock
The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; - a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man. View quote
Anthony Trollope
There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned. (Anthony Trollope)
It is better to make mistakes than to lie idle. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so long – the care of cares – the only one, as it seemed to you, between your soul and the radiance of Heaven – and straight you find a new stratum there. View quote
Sheridan Le Fanu
I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it. View quote
Abraham Pais
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth. View quote
George Orwell