Quotes about lying
lying rescue greater-good
There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good? Jodi Picoult
lying
Lie to yourself until it's true.
lying heart persons
Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.
lying faces sometimes
Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.
lying party believe
A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.
lying men class
She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.
lying color coats
I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.
lying secret fiction
Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.
lying care want
This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.
lying breathing long
Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.
lying once-upon-a-time between-the-lines
Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying
lying liars knows
Only the liar knows he's lying
lying silence way
Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.
lying said persons
How do you tell someone that you weren't the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him that you'd meant the things you'd said, when everything else about you turned out to be a lie.
lying would-be imagine
I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.
lying crazy fall
That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.
lying almonds disease
As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.
lying sometimes found
In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.
lying decision making-love
But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.
lying differences space
In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.
lying zest chocolate
A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.
lying heart thinking
Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.
lying want-something want
When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.
lying believe two
It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
lying heart paradox
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. John Grierson
lying missing obvious
When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious. John Grisham
lying believe people
It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.
lying water-lily swans
Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying. John Greenleaf Whittier
lying home greece
The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home.
lying simple boys
The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful? John Green
lying
So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.
lying baths done
Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down
lying covenant sacred
No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression?