Quotes About Lies

Grandma's lie were more interesting, even historical.

What she likes and doesn't, when she isn't lying the lazy lie of decency.

Some form of alternative consciousness is the only freedom from these addictions and from cultural lies. If the universal addiction is to our own

Randall continued to hear the fundamental insincerity of the man, but also knew that the most effective lies were those liberally laced with truth. The lie could be ninety-nine parts truth to one part falsehood, the one tarnished part mingling with the pure until it was all tainted, more false than pure fabrication.

The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever," Howe declared. "It made impossible a repetition of the old lies [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred, fear and violence that have crippled and may yet destroy our culture." A

For she knew the rights and the wrongs… The truths and the lies… The betrayed and the betrayer.

his hardest cases, where parents, upstanding people, had reported children missing but were later proven to have lied to cover up abuse, an accidental death or a homicide. He had looked into the eyes of mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles and friends as they lied, watched their tears, even believed that they were convinced in the truth of their own lies until the facts, the evidence, emerged and the incontrovertible truth was revealed.

If you run on lies long enough, they become your truth. Such delicate fabric we conceal our motives in. Colors to obscure the truth of our hearts. No one is a bad person in his or her own mind. We are all noble protagonists.

Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth

The truth is harsh. Anubis said. Spirits come to the Hall of Judgement all the time, and they cannot let go of their lies. They deny their faults, their true feelings, their mistakes.......right up until Ammit devours their souls for eternity. It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

Cultural lies conform us, but eternal truths transform us.

The world was beautiful. It surprised me, how beautiful it kept on insisting on being. In spite of all the lies, it was beautiful.

Words are our only weapons against the lies of history. We must bear witness to the truth. If we do not, those we love die twice over.' He paused. 'I will not find peace until I know how it ended.

She didn't. I hadn't seen or spoken to Hailey since I left Silence. He frowned. Then she made that stuff up? Nell sipped her coffee, then smiled. She always made stuff up, Max. Didn't you know? You're saying she was a liar? Sweet, friendly Hailey. So charming, so good-tempered. And she had a way about her, didn't she? A way of… getting people behind her. A way of making people believe her. Not exactly my strong suit, huh?

No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

He called after me, "How old am I, Maya?" I turned. "How the hell should I know? Whatever you've told the school, I'm sure it's a lie anyway.

Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies.

the war taught me that nothing counts as much as loyalty Bullshit. you still haven't learned that when humans are under pressure, we're all willing to lie even to the people we care? we lie more to our loved ones, because we care about them so damn much. why do you think we tell the truth to priests and shrinks and total strangers we meet on trains? it's because we don't love them, so we don't care what they think.

Newspapers are supposed to tell the truth!"Woody said, his voice rising with furious indignation. "They can't just make up lies!""Yes, they can,"she said. "But it's not fair!""Welcome to the real world,"said his mother.

The culture was constantly telling us one thing, and the realities of society were consistently failing to deliver it—the culture was lying. This was a deep and serious legitimation crisis: a culture that is consistently lying to its members simply cannot move forward for long.

All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

Power factions fight back with lies.

Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power.