Lies Quotes
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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.
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No longer is there a quest for the truth so much as there is this apparent need to present both sides of an issue even if one is nothing but lies and distortions.
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We [ with Russel Crowe] had an Arabic coach there [ in the Body of Lies] that was really helpful, because it was more so than any accent. You have to be so exact, and there's different dialects of Arabic from country to country so it was really, really difficult to tell you the truth. And one of the hardest things I've ever had to do language-wise, because it comes from the throat. It's different. And also learning about the customs and the culture and all that, so we had advisors for that sort of thing.
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One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.
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The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience.
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The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.
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Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.
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If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia, Canada would have 4, Denmark 2, and Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. just one apiece. Only a sliver of Alaska, on the Beaufort Sea, lies above the Arctic Circle.
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I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
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The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.
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Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys!
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Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.
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Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.
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Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.
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Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
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I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.
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The less time you spend with Truth, the easier it is to believe lies.
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Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
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Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan.
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The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russia lies in Washington rather than Moscow. After 1989, Russia was a defeated power. Despite the fine words and some limited gestures, the Americans have treated it like one. Their policy has been one of encirclement.
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The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
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I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.
