Lies Quotes

Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Freedom lies in being bold.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

On all the peaks lies peace.

What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin.

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.

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.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

It's hard to determine where lies culpability.

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don't need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East.

I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and comedic to very real dramatic moments in the wink of an eye.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

No lies, just love.

The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.