Quotes About Lie

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.

Gaunt immortality in black and gold, Wreathed consoler hideous to behold. The beautiful lie of a mother's womb, The pious trick - for it is the tomb!

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Off the pitch, Cristiano is an extremely normal person. When something gets out in the media talking about him... I look and I say: 'This can't be. It's a lie.'

I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.

Truth or lie... he had always chosen the lie, to spare his little brother any unpleasant truth.

The dark side of our new information technology is not that it allows government repression of free speech but just the opposite: it permits anyone to spread, with little risk of being held accountable, any idea, conspiracy, lie, hatred, scam, or scheme, with the result that societies become less civil and governable.

Since that moment, I'd bought into the idea that isolation would ease my pain and indifference was the remedy for rejection. Clarity was quick in coming. Isolation is a prison and indifference is a lie. Neither work.

They realized that, in fact, the lie wasn't safe. That it threatened their existence more profoundly than the truth did.

If we run from the truth of our existence we become a lie...

Scorpios are human lie detectors.

Find the truth and spread the lie.

As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.

a thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer then the truth

Because that's a lie. If she was going to threaten him with anything, it would have been the picture she took of him watching her through his bedroom window and jerking off.

Mulholland Drive is a two-lane, serpentine road that runs along the crest of the mountains and is named after the guy who built a two-hundred-mile aqueduct to drain water from the Northern California delta down to Los Angeles just so developers could get rich building homes in a place that otherwise is inhospitable to human life. The whole city is a carefully constructed lie built on greed.

said he had a "unique artistic vision," which wasn't exactly a lie. His vision just happened to be shit.

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.

Now, today is the day we honor, of course, the Presidents, ranging from George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie, to George Bush, who couldn't tell the truth, to Bill Clinton, who couldn't tell the difference.

False. Everything by which you have lived and live now is all a deception, a lie, concealing both life and death from you.

After a lie truth bursts out, and it is no longer the radiant and serene goddess knew or hoped for—it is a disease, it is a moral syphilis and will ravage until the body in which it can dwell has been purged.

You fainted, I told Tank. I did not, Tank said. That's a lie.