Quotes About Lie

There is nothing in the record of the past two years when both Houses of Congress have been controlled by the Republican Party which can lead any person to believe that those promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistant, persuasive and unrealistic.

Now see what you have done?" he said. "Not only have you shamed me in front of a guest, you have made that guest lie on your behalf.

For someone who was a truth-teller," said Agent Lee, "we would consider them to be a grade two or higher. And we would consider someone to be deceptive if they were a negative four or below. Chris Watts scored a negative eighteen.

You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.

True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.

Una promesa suele estar tan cerca de ser una mentira como de ser una verdad»

Art," said Picasso, "is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Sometimes the truth, told right, was the best lie.

The builders must never have imagined that the world might find itself not only fragmented, but wishing to lie between modules.

So I thought you would respond better to the lie than the truth," he

There was no fate. There was what people tell others and those others believe. There was conspiracy and propaganda and inspiration, not fate. Fate was only someone else's idea of how the world worked, a story people inherit, a lie they're told. If he'd learned anything, Jacob thought, he'd learned that. That there was no thing that should be, that must be, even the world.

Aristotle and Plato would have dismissed this kind of obsequious language as unworthy of free men. By the seventeenth century, however, it had become commonplace. It was also a lie.

Speaking truth in a away that it seems a lie benefits you more than telling a lie which seems true.

The main witness, Harper, the state trooper i was supposed to have shot, testified he had told an "untruth" on direct examination but denied it was a lie.

It is strange how long some men will lie in wait to speak somewhat they desire to say; and how far about they will fetch; and how many other matters they will beat over, to come near it. It is a thing of great patience, but yet of much use.

You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

A legend, a lie, and a likelihood make a tradition'?

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

I do like crime thriller stories. That's because these stories have a lot of layers. There are always three sides to such stories... there is a truth, there is a lie and then there is the ultimate truth. Different human emotions and intense interpersonal relationships form the core of stories in this genre.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

DID YOU KNOW!?! That all of human history can be described entirely in terms of the interaction between contractors and middle-level management. It's all true It's impossible to lie in any language and equally impossible to tell the truth.

Except . . . that would put her in Scarlet's bedroom. She'd instantly become a suspect. But saying nothing made her feel even worse—it was probably a huge crime to lie to a police officer, right?