Quotes about 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. Jodi Picoult
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 interesting people
It's been very interesting. We've seen a lot of interesting testimony. We've seen a lot of interesting people, a lot of allegations, a lot of lies, a lot of misinformation and some truth. Kenneth Lay
lying men asking
There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you. Ken Follett
lying integrity kissing
We’re all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn’t count. It’s when you want so badly to do something wrong—when you’re about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor’s wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble—that’s when you need the rules. Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn’t wave it until you’re about to put it to the test.
lying color sea
I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have put color and knotted it. Swim! The free white sea, infinity, lies before you. Kazimir Malevich
lying taken ideas
I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world of will and idea. Is the milk bottle the symbol of milk?
lying thinking indulge-in
Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in - particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth. Kazuo Ishiguro
lying needs never-let-me-go
You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.
lying emotional good-relationship
Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then you're just lying. Kristen Stewart
lying people different
Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.
lying voice passionate
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. Kiri Te Kanawa
lying danger foolishness
In the foolishness lies the danger. Omar Torrijos
lying private-jet jet
It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you. Oprah Winfrey
lying dignity states
Diplomacy: lying in state. Oliver Herford
lying tact
Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
lying dont-lie
We lie by not telling you things...We don't lie by telling you things that aren't true. Oliver North
lying archer heart
The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim. Oliver Goldsmith
lying ocean son
Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.