Quotes About Lie

Eternity is a lie and Chiron was the messenger.

Prof. Gilley declares that my "central lie," my "first and biggest deceit," is to equate the État independant du Congo, the regime King Leopold II of Belgium controlled for 23 years, with colonialism.

Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

But what do you say if you're asked a direct question and you can't tell the truth and you can't tell a lie?' 'You say "how very interesting" and change the subject.

It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.

Perception, knowledge, and truth without love are nothing. They are not truth, for truth is God, and God is love. Therefore, truth without love is a lie.

That the lie portrays the truth as lie is the ultimate possible rebellion. It is the abyss of the lie that it lives because it sets itself up as truth and condemns the truth as lie.

I think it's safe to say that the entire abortion industry is based on a lie.... I am dedicated to spending the rest of my life undoing the law that bears my name.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

How much time do I have left?" I glance over at my clock. "Seven minutes." Maybe I should tack on an extra five… "Can we lie down, then?" he suggests. I shove him in the shoulder. "Peter!" "I just want to hold you for a little bit! If I was going to try to do more, I'd need more than seven minutes, trust me.

Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.

Society has always said: Make money. Artists have said: But there's something else. Cliché City. But in Hollwood there's the Big Lie that you can have both. A lie you want to believe.

The university grounds are really beautiful. Universities always try that bullshit. They want you to think wonderful things are going on inside of them because the grounds are beautiful. In general, it is good to be suspicious of monetary displays. Large swaths of bright green well-watered grass—a thing like that is a huge lie.

All things truly wicked start from innocence. So you live day by day and enjoy what you have and do not worry. You lie and hate it and it destroys you and every day is more dangerous, but you live day to day as in a war.

Dante only made crazy people feel they could write great poetry. That was not true of course but then almost nothing was true and especially not in Africa. In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect weed-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.

His was a country of fearful men: proud in the talking, paltry in the living, and every promise another lie.

Justine's virtue, in action, is the liberal lie in action, a good heart and an inadequate methodology.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

That whole thing: the paparazzi, a gazillion magazines. You can't lie on a beach. God forbid your bikini rides up too far or you've eaten too many doughnuts and they catch you wiping your mouth. That must be exhausting, that lack of privacy.

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