Lie Quotes - page 86

My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie. (Tom Wolfe)
A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak. View quote
Tom Wolfe
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. View quote
Robert Southey
I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour. I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and my ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire, the perfect contradiction to my once anticipated poignant early demise. View quote
Lance Armstrong
A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it. View quote
Laurence Sterne
For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. They are addicts, and they are guilty and they do lie and cheat and steal - like all junkies. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively. ... For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth. View quote
Anaïs Nin
I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied. (Ken Livingstone)
I am the girl you know, can't look you in the eye I am the girl you know so sick I cannot try I am the one you want, can't look you in the eye I am the girl you know, I lie and lie and lie. View quote
Courtney Love
It's my lie and I believe in it It's my lie and I wanted it It's my bed and I'll bleed in it It's my bed, and I'll lie And I sit on the corner And I drink drown soda I wanna bomb the whole state of Minnesota. View quote
Courtney Love
I have to admit that I cannot lie to myself nor to anyone else. I cannot do what I am not able to do. I am not able to change the name of the country to the Republic of Taiwan during my presidency term, and the ex-president Lee Teng-hui also could not do it during his twelve-year as the president. I believe that even if he was the president now, he could still not be able to do it. View quote
Chen Shui-bian
I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand. View quote
Sarah McLachlan
If I were to run, I'd run as a Republican. They're the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they'd still eat it up. I bet my numbers would be terrific. View quote
Donald Trump
I still stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?' he asks. 'No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,' I tell him. View quote
Suzanne Collins
The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is true. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Oh, I talk about things; I drive my husband insane. And I can't tell a lie. Everyone knows. I do this smile thing. View quote
Cecelia Ahern
The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current. View quote
Willa Cather
When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows. (Grace Slick)
Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society. View quote
Jenny McCarthy
I can't lie, I did a lot of really, really stupid things, and it was because it was my way of crying for help. View quote
Kelly Osbourne
...people shouldn't have to make statements and their lives should be private if they want to be. But I think if someone's feeling restricted by not making a statement, then they should be free to do so. I chose to speak to you because I don't want to lie by omission and I want to be very straightforward about my life... View quote
Saffron Burrows
To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting. View quote
Roberto Benigni