Quotes About Lie

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.

the truth of God for a lie" has had as a common practice in their idol worship the insane horror of child sacrifice.

This is the lie that is at the heart of our society, the lie that encourages every form of destructive self-indulgence to flourish: for while we ascribe our conduct to pressures from without, we obey the whims that well up from within, thereby awarding ourselves carte blanche to behave as we choose. Thus we feel good about behaving badly.

I hate you, Asher Adams," she cried desperately, wanting it to be true, knowing it to be an out-and-out lie. "I love the way you hate me," he whispered in a sexy voice.

2003 case before the Supreme Court in which Nike claimed that it had the First Amendment right to lie in its corporate marketing, a variation on the First Amendment right of free speech. (Except in certain contract and law enforcement/court situations, it's perfectly legal for human persons to lie in the United States.

Picasso dijo: «Todos sabemos que el arte no es la verdad. Es una mentira que nos hace ver la verdad, al menos aquella que nos es dado comprender».

a man who could tell that terrible lie, live with that terrible lie, had something missing inside him.

Many of the central ideas of the major religions cannot be reconciled, which gives the lie to the trendy tenet of pluralism that all religions at their core are the same.

Marla... maldita turista, su mentira reflejaba la mía.

The Ravager is not the last weapon. Nor do I even control it. There is … another." His face twitches. "You don't mean …" "I do mean. He's not dead." "But you said he was." "I lied." She shrugs. "This was … all his plan. Wasn't it? I should've seen it. I fell for a trap. We all fell for your trap.

And I told myself that lie, all the way to my home.

T]he real danger does not lie in the fact that there is a lack or a loss of universality of knowledge among the specialists. The true danger lies in the pretense and claim of totality of knowledge.

Ah, Palinurus, you were too trustful of the calm sky and sea. So you will lie, a shroudless form, on an unknown strand.

It would be a comfort, she felt, to lean; to sit down; yes, to lie down; never, never, never to get up again.

Sociologists have studied these questions as well. It turns out that there is a fundamental flaw in the data used to support the claim that we suffer from time poverty and overwork: we lie.

If you want to know the truth," he says, leaning forward like he's getting ready to tell a really good story, "it has to do with Kelsey. And the biggest lie of all." And that's when I realize the thing about the truth. It always comes out, no matter what you do.

from Hawaii, and it would be late Sunday night before they arrived. "What time will you be home?" "I'm going to crash here tonight," I said. Now, that wasn't true—I didn't know where I'd be sleeping—but Karla told me to plan for an all-nighter, and saying I was at Jay's was as good a lie as any. "Will there be beer?

When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.

At a certain level of oppression, truth hardly matters, because the greater the lie, the greater the show of power.

When you make someone promise something, is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

It's easier to believe a lie to avoid the truth, but the real lie is in believing that you can avoid the truth in the first place.

it can reach a murderous intensity within minutes over a betrayed trust, a lie, a wrong against a family member.