Lies Quotes
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An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.
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Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
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The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.
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To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.
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Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.
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I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.
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I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
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For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.
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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
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White lies are ushers to black ones.
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The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.
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He read about humanity’s age-old racial struggles. Had it really been less than half a millennium since humans contrived gigantic, fatuous lies about each other simply because of pigment shades, and killed millions because they believed their own lies?
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As each year and debate passes, more broadband companies will start to see that their future lies not in restricting an open Internet but in betting on it.
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Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and partners and one of our closest allies. It is important because the Syrian regime possesses stores of chemical weapons that they have recently used on a large scale and that we cannot allow to fall into terrorists' hands.
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One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
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Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.
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You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
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An unpopular opinion concerning politics or religion lies concealed in the breast of every man; in many cases not only one sample, but several. The more intelligent the man, the larger the freightage of this kind of opinions he carries, and keeps to himself.
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The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.
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One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.
