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What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.
Author:
Peter Zarlenga
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I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.
Author:
Marguerite Yourcenar
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Truth never was indebted to a lie.
Author:
Edward Young
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I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.
Author:
William Wyler
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But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.
Author:
Steve Wozniak
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An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
Author:
Henry Wotton
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To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.
Author:
Stevie Wonder
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In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
Author:
Thomas Wolfe
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
Author:
Tad Williams
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These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.
Author:
Edward Williams
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The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.
Author:
Theodore White
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Politicians often lie.
Author:
Paul Weyrich
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We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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Actions lie louder than words.
Author:
Bob Wells
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When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
Author:
Simone Weil
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The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.
Author:
Sela Ward
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Let sleeping dogs lie.
Author:
Robert Walpole
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Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie.
Author:
Mark Wahlberg
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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
Author:
Voltaire
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This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.
Author:
Jon Voight
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You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.
Author:
Stevie Vaughan
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The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
Author:
Andrew Vachss
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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
Author:
Mark Twain
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The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
Author:
Mark Twain
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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Author:
Mark Twain
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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Author:
Mark Twain
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It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.
Author:
Paul Tsongas
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Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
Author:
Harry Truman
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Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.
Author:
Linda Tripp
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
Author:
Lars Trier
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The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
Author:
Arnold Toynbee
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The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?
Author:
Billy Thornton
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I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
Author:
Emma Thompson
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If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.
Author:
Bennie Thompson
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
Author:
Harold Taylor
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Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.
Author:
Donna Tartt
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Don't lie if you don't have to.
Author:
Leo Szilard
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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
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I think the inherent right of the Government to lie to save itself when facing a nuclear disaster is basic.
Author:
Arthur Sylvester
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In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
Author:
Thomas Sydenham
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A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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It's a humorous statement that doesn't mean anything. You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.
Author:
Jimmy Swaggart
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Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.
Author:
Donald Sutherland
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
Author:
Patricia Sun
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The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.
Author:
Peter Straub
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And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.
Author:
Mark Strand
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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
Author:
I. Stone
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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.
Author:
John Sterling
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I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.
Author:
Sylvester Stallone
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Author:
Charles Spurgeon
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
Author:
Larry Speakes
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
Author:
Wole Soyinka
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Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
Author:
John Sousa
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A lie never lives to be old.
Author:
Sophocles
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No lie ever reaches old age.
Author:
Sophocles
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Author:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
Author:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Author:
Alexander Solzehnitsyn
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Author:
Alexander Solzehnitsyn
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It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
Author:
L. Smith
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I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.
Author:
Peter Singer
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You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.
Author:
Peter Singer
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I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.
Author:
Gene Simmons
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Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.
Author:
Luiz Silva
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The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
Author:
Sargent Shriver
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But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.
Author:
Clare Short
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I had to lie so much about sex, first when I was 15, because I wasn't supposed to be having it. And then when I got older, I lied to everybody I was having sex with, so I could have sex with other people.
Author:
Cybill Sheperd
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I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.
Author:
Charlie Sheen
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It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison.
Author:
Cindy Sheehan
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A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.
Author:
Ariel Sharon
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
Author:
Karl Shapiro
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I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
Author:
Shakira
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We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.
Author:
Brent Scowcroft
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Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.
Author:
Paul Scott
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After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't really socialize with the other actors.
Author:
Izabella Scorupco
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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'
Author:
Charles Schulz
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Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
Author:
Charles Schulz
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I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.
Author:
Joe Scarborough
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I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us.
Author:
Leverett Saltonstall
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For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.
Author:
Andrei Sakharov
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Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.
Author:
Mort Sahl
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Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.
Author:
Todd Rundgren
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There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.
Author:
Donald Rumsfeld
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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.
Author:
Zhu Rongji
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If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.
Author:
Joe Rogan
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But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments.
Author:
Kevin Richardson
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The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?
Author:
Jef Richards
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Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.
Author:
Boyd Rice
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Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.
Author:
Tommy Rettig
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To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.
Author:
Robert Purvis
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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
Author:
Beatrix Potter
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Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.
Author:
Vince Poscente
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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Author:
Plutarch
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The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
Author:
Titus Plautus
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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
Author:
Plato
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
Author:
Plato
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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.
Author:
River Phoenix
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I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.
Author:
River Phoenix
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When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.
Author:
John Perkins
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I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.
Author:
Simon Pegg
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Author:
Pope Paul II
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Weaklings must lie.
Author:
Jean Paul
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He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
Author:
Gilbert Parker
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Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.
Author:
Anne Parillaud
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
Author:
Paracelsus
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Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.
Author:
Emmeline Pankhurst
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That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
Author:
Satchel Paige
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But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.
Author:
Rudolf Otto
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Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?
Author:
Christine O'Donnell
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I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
Author:
Conor Oberst
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As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
Author:
Andre Norton
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I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.
Author:
Lyn Nofziger
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
Author:
Isaac Newton
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As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.
Author:
Nursultan Nazarbayev
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And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
Author:
Bruce Nauman
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The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.
Author:
Augustus Napier
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A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
Author:
John Motley
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Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.
Author:
Robin Morgan
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Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'
Author:
Demi Moore
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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Author:
Maria Montessori
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
Author:
Charles Montague
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And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.
Author:
Colin Mochrie
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This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.
Author:
Joni Mitchell
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Author:
Czeslaw Milosz
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A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
Author:
Olin Miller
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
Author:
Agnes Mille
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I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them any displeasure for it, for I do not believe them and I do not decide anything until I have found out the truth.
Author:
Antonio Mendoza
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
Author:
H. Mencken
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Author:
H. Mencken
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If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams.
Author:
Joel McHale
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I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.
Author:
Mark McGwire
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Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.
Author:
Mary McCarthy
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Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
Author:
Terry McAuliffe
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I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.
Author:
Dave Matthews
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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
Author:
Philip Massinger
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You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
Author:
Dean Martin
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I could lie and tell you I'm a hardcore gamer - I'm not.
Author:
Josie Maran
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He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.
Author:
Mickey Mantle
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Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
Author:
Marilyn Manson
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I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.
Author:
Charles Manson
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Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
Author:
Marya Mannes
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
Author:
Thomas Mann
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Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother.
Author:
Peter Malkin
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We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
Author:
Alison Lurie
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
Author:
John Lubbock
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I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.
Author:
Courtney Love
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New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.
Author:
Federico Lorca
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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
Author:
Adolf Loos
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The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.
Author:
Mary Little
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I truly believe the brightest days lie ahead for the Great State of Hawaii.
Author:
Linda Lingle
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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
Author:
Anne Lindbergh
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Author:
Georg Lichtenberg
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But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.
Author:
James Levine
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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
Author:
Primo Levi
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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Author:
Vladimir Lenin
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The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
Author:
Gottfried Leibniz
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This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
Author:
Gottfried Leibniz
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Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Author:
Stanislaw Lec
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It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
Author:
Stephen Leacock
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I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.
Author:
Hugh Laurie
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The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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I'm not going to lie to you fellas, I've been drinking.
Author:
Artie Lange
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The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well.
Author:
Frank Lampard
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The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Author:
Dalai Lama
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It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.
Author:
Tim LaHaye
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We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.
Author:
Nick Lachey
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I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.
Author:
Mike Krzyzewski
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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.
Author:
Louis Kronenberger
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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Karl Kraus
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Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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A lie cannot live.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.
Author:
William King
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The solution really has to lie within the Iraqi people.
Author:
Steve King
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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Stephen King
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Author:
Stephen King
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When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.
Author:
Larry King
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When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
Author:
Ken Kesey
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
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John Kennedy
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I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.
Author:
Elia Kazan
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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
Author:
Immanuel Kant
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When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.
Author:
Kiri Kanawa
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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.
Author:
Walid Jumblatt
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I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.
Author:
Paula Jones
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A lot of people are tired around here, but I'm not sure they're ready to lie down, stretch out and fall asleep.
Author:
Jim Jones
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If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.
Author:
Denis Johnson
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My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me.
Author:
Derek Jeter
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Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.
Author:
Thomas Jane
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Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
Author:
William James
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It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.
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Michael Jackson
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I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.
Author:
Jackie Jackson
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The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
Author:
Alphonso Jackson
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A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
Author:
Robert Ingersoll
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I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.
Author:
Natalie Imbruglia
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Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.
Author:
Robert Hutchins
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You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.
Author:
Michael Hutchence
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I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat.
Author:
Holly Hunter
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The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.
Author:
Edwin Hubble
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My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.
Author:
Whitney Houston
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I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.
Author:
Anthony Hopkins
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Author:
Oliver Holmes
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Author:
Marjorie Holmes
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
Author:
Adolf Hitler
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The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Author:
Adolf Hitler
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Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
Author:
Adolf Hitler
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Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
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Hippocrates
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While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.
Author:
Lewis Hine
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When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
Author:
Robert Higgs
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And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
Author:
Patricia Hewitt
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
Author:
Oliver Herford
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Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
Author:
George Herbert
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Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
Author:
Keith Henson
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In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
Author:
Beth Henley
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Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Author:
Jimi Hendrix
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Lying can never save us from another lie.
Author:
Vaclav Havel
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Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.
Author:
Josh Hartnett
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When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
Author:
Jean Harlow
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But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
Author:
Garrett Hardin
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You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.
Author:
Kathleen Hanna
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I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
Author:
Christopher Hampton
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Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.
Author:
James Hall
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The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
Author:
John Grierson
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Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.
Author:
Lee Greenwood
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Author:
Graham Greene
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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Author:
Remy Gourmont
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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Author:
Remy Gourmont
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I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
Author:
John Gotti
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When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it.
Author:
Whoopi Goldberg
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Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
Author:
Natalie Goldberg
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We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.
Author:
Philip Gibbs
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Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.
Author:
Timothy Geithner
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In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.
Author:
David Geffen
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It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.
Author:
Jim Garrison
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Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
Author:
Joseph Gallivan
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What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
Author:
Lady Gaga
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A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
Author:
James Froude
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I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.
Author:
Cathy Freeman
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Half a truth is often a great lie.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
Author:
Harrison Ford
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I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.
Author:
Lynn Fontanne
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There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.
Author:
Ken Follet
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Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.
Author:
Robert Flaherty
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I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.
Author:
Albert Finney
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Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
Author:
William Feather
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I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
Author:
Frances Farmer
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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
Author:
Harold Evans
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Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Author:
Evan Esar
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A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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Epictetus
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Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
Author:
Daniel Ellsberg
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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
Author:
Henry Ellis
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Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Author:
Roger Ebert
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I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.
Author:
Max Eastman
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It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.
Author:
Crystal Eastman
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All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Author:
Bob Dylan
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And he that will this health deny, down among the dead men let him lie.
Author:
John Dyer
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
Author:
Lawrence Durrell
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Author:
Finley Dunne
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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Author:
Norman Douglas
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When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore.
Author:
Matt Dillon
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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Author:
Denis Diderot
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The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.
Author:
George Deukmejian
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I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.
Author:
Evan Dando
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I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.
Author:
Willem Dafoe
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I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.
Author:
Puff Daddy
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There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.
Author:
John Cusack
