Lies Quotes
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All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
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Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and only arise from a definite spiritual conviction. Any violence which does not spring from a firm, spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain.
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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
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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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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
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White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.
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On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths - half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
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Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.
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You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.
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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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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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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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It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.
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Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
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Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.
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Here lies Howard Campbell’s essence,Freed from his body’s noisome nuisance.His body, empty, prowls the earth,Earning what a body’s worth.If his body and his essence remain apart,Burn his body, but spare this, his heart.
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Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?
