Quotes About Lie

Every story is true and a lie. The true part of this one is: Love and the memory of love can't be drowned. The lie part is that this is a good thing.

The time has come, everybody lie down so you won't get hurt when the sun bursts.

You can't expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. That is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.

You can't expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. That is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.

It was not exactly circular logic. More like spiral. An accepted lie that spun in upon itself until truth and fiction disappeared into a singularity of who the hell cares, as long as I'm happy?

It was not exactly circular logic. More like spiral. An accepted lie that spun in upon itself until truth and fiction disappeared into a singularity of who the hell cares, as long as I'm happy?

Precisely," said Tenkamenin. "A successful lie is not fueled by the liar; it is fueled by the willingness of the listener to believe. You can't expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. That is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.

a lie can run around the internet before the truth has logged on to facebook

In this example, the defining characteristic of the median—that it does not weight observations on the basis of how far they lie from the midpoint, only on whether they lie above or below—turns out to be its weakness.

A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.

We need to create a sense of shame about racism, and about leaders who deliberately mislead and lie.

I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie.

If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

The world had kenneled a vicious lie in my brain…

that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

We don't ask that question. Why not? If I tell you the truth, you would not believe me. If I lie, you would believe me.

Is that man's fate: to spend his closest hours to truth longing for a lie?

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

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

Hamlet knows a hawk from a handsaw, I know blasphemy from a lie and plagiarism from a bad decision.

Things have value because somebody buys them, because somebody pays money; if you can find a buyer, even a lie is worth a thousand yen.

Within all things, all living beings, the words of the gods lie hidden, awaiting revelation.

See my finger wet, see my finger dry, see my finger cut my throat if I tell a lie," said the girl, in a singsong tone, and with accompanying dramatic gestures of fearful histrionic fervour.

Oh, I know I could say were through And tell myself I'm over you But even if I made a vow I promise not to miss you now And try to hide the truth inside I fell cause I, I just can't live a lie *