Quotes about lying
lying use advertising
In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase. Storm Jameson
lying littles truth-is
... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.
lying men poison
Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.
lying optimistic phrases
A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.
lying thinking mind
I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind ...
lying writing people
all writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth ...
lying government justice
It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality. Stewart Udall
lying may bed
If I lie down on my bed I must be here, But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere. Stevie Smith
lying believe white
If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic.
lying poet
Poets tell many lies. Solon
lying half truth-is
A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
lying past atrocities
scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past. Steve Irwin
lying animal land
Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.
lying people answers
Clearly Democrats are not united in what is the critique of what we're doing there and what is the answer to what we do next. The difficulty of coming to a unified position is that for a lot of people who voted for it, they have to decide whether they can admit that they were misled. Steve Elmendorf
lying murder-victims ideas
The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being. Steve Earle
lying moving eye
You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes. Stephen Spender
lying important tiny
Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size. Stephen Sondheim
lying real men
But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave. Stephen Fry
lying apology promise
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort. Spiro T. Agnew
lying mistake making-mistakes
It is better to make mistakes than to lie idle. Sri Chinmoy
lying safety may
Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality..... To rest in or follow after an inferior potentiality may seem safe, rational, comfortable, easy, but it ends badly, in some futility or in a mere circling down the abyss or in a stagnant morass. Our right and natural road is towards the summits. Sri Aurobindo
lying mean opportunity
It just means that your talents lie elsewhere, so take the opportunity to seek out what you are good at, and find a place where you can flourish. Once you do, you’re going to kill it. Sophia Amoruso
lying knowing weakness
True success lies in knowing your weaknesses and playing to your strengths
lying rivers cities
If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city. Ruta Sepetys
lying age know-how
I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself. Ruby Wax
lying heart envy
Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart. Ross MacDonald
lying age weakness
I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me. Rosie Perez
lying culpability determine
It's hard to determine where lies culpability. Roger Mahony
lying mean denial
Jerry Kilgore offers denial and delusion, ... Mr. Kaine Delusion and deceit. That means nothing happens. Russ Potts
lying believe thinking
From 1924 to 1965, 41 years, essentially, there was no immigration. Try telling people that in the midst of this debate and they won't believe you. They'll think you're making it up. They'll think you're lying about it. Rush Limbaugh
lying thinking people
Why do I think the polls were wrong? People were relying on the pollsters. There was "the Brexit Effect." I think there's a Trump Effect, too. I think people are lying to the pollsters about Trump. There isn't any question about it.
lying law judging
[Barack] Obama's executive amnesty has been frozen via a stay by a judge on the appellate court. You remember, this is the judge that discovered the Defense Department lawyers were lying to him in open court, and instead of actually sanctioning them, he demanded that they go to a new ethics course to learn the proper behavior and decorum and the law in court, that you just can't lie with impunity to a judge.
lying stupid media
He discusses his service in Iraq, the wounds he suffered there, and he says to me in this ad, 'Until you have the guts to call me a 'phony soldier' to my face, stop telling lies about my service.' You know, this is such a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media in a TV ad to walk into as many people as he can walk into.