Quotes About Lie

I'm here because we always meditate together," I lied. "When you're staying with me, sure. But you're not going to traipse over here every morning, are you?" Didn't anyone want me around?

pretending as they waited that time had no value and what a lie. A lie they didn't mind. They were on the clock, being paid to forsake time's value by standing under the sun like they had all day.

After she had gone he sat on alone, and the lie was still bitter to his spirit as he sat there, and he covered his face for the shame that was in him - but because of the love that was in him he wept.

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.

Some of the attendees protested. One guy said, "We have jobs. We can't keep making up excuses to miss work." "If you can't lie to your boss, how are going to succeed at this?" the presenter responded.

It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.

Look at the decisions I've made in my life personally. To paint the picture intentionally that I don't believe in, that I'm not a supporter of, that I'm not an advocate of early childhood education is a mistruth. It's an absolute and outright lie, and to continue to perpetuate it is irresponsible.

I heard the ball rattling among the trees. All I could hope was that I was lucky and had a decent lie so that I could chip out. Of course I played a provisional…" He had started walking forward as he talked and Joe was once more trotting slightly behind. "A Provisional?" he asked, wondering how the IRA had got into things.

We stepped outside rather hurriedly and down the street to anonymous sanctuary among the buildings of San Francisco. Promise me till your dying day, you'll believe that a Mellon was a Confederate general. It's the truth. That God-damn book lies! There was a Confederate general in my family! I promise, I said and it was a promise that was kept.

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

The lie was one they - children, doctors, nurses - all encouraged. The lie was that postponing death was life. That wicked lie had now imprisoned Francie in a solitude more absolute and perfect and terrifying than any prison cell.

The lie was that postponing death was life. That wicked lie had now imprisoned Francie in a solitude more absolute and perfect and terrifying than any prison cell.

The lie was one they - children, doctors, nurses - all encourage. The lie was that postponing death was life. That wicked lie had now imprisoned Francie in a solitude more absolute and perfect and terrifying than any prison cell.

Oh, God. She'd now have to invent a bawdy verse on the spot. She'd never had to improvise so much in her entire life as she had in the last five minutes. Improvise being another word for lie, of course.

Isabelle is like a warrior going into battle and she needs… you said yes? You'd really choose an inexperienced squire? she asked, her voice incredulous. He laughed. I would. She smiled. You're lying to me to make me feel better. It's all right. It's working. Now tell me another lie.

They're allies, Jamie. She immediately let go of him, straightened her back, and refolded her hands in her lap. I guessed as much, she whispered. It was a lie, made blacker still when she added, Even from this distance I can see them smiling. An eagle couldn't see their faces from this distance, he answered dryly. We English have perfect eyesight.

But was it cowardice to call out a lie, to insist on truth?

There was no spoken testimony, no verbal deposition, no swearing upon holy books, for words alone could lie. Decision and action, repeated over time, did not.

sing the hokey pokey of her life story, where she put the truth in, pulled a lie out, added an embellishment, and shook it all about.

One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie.

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

Security is not a static thing. Security would only lie in a man's confidence in reaching his goals and, indeed, in his having goals to reach.

You know, Barack Obama is a man of great dignity. And I could tell how much it bothered him and annoyed him that this [birther lie] was being touted and used against him.