Lies Quotes
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Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
George Bernard Shaw
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Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
John Morley
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I was never apposed or sought out nudity, but it was necessary in the Where the Truth Lies. If they didn't have the nudity, but they still had the scenes - because sex is used as a power tool in this movie - I feel it would have felt self conscious and I think the scene is meant for you to feel uncomfortable.
Rachel Blanchard
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The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.
Ray Manzarek The Doors
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Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.
Alveda King
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We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that's beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a miracle.
Marianne Williamson
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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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there is no war not based on lies,there is no infamy alive withoutits kindred kin, deceit.
L. Ron Hubbard
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'Often,' he says, 'what we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.'
Charles de Lint
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In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.
M. F. K. Fisher
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Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates. It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.
Nabeshima Naoshige
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The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.
Jerry Saltz
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Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation … Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
Bernard Baruch
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The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
Maria Montessori
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Man must act in such a way that the whole of his individuality lies in each moment.
Otto Weininger
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I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.
Saint Basil
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Only a boring man will always want things to match; real quality lies in irregularity―another excellent remark.
Kenko Yoshida
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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.
Donald Freed
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Why do you lie" I ask her. "To block the truth." Fair enough. Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.
Rachel Cohn
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Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.
Lyall Watson