Lies Quotes
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I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.
Marlee Matlin
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It seems to me that the real clue to your sex orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than in your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy having sex with him.
Christopher Isherwood
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I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.
Bryce Courtenay
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Be held truthful that your lies may count.
Addison Mizner
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As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together.
Marilyn Monroe
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Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.
Nadeem Aslam
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The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.
Walker Evans
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I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.
Oswald Chambers
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This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits... . People are well aware of this. The root of the problem lies in a selfish world view which inflates personal consumption beyond the essential.
Yehuda Levi
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The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man
H. L. Mencken
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Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor? Kolabati looked into his eyes. "He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.
F. Paul Wilson
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A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
H. L. Mencken
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My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.
Nadia McCaffrey
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In Chhattisgarh, there is no Narendra Modi factor; people know that he only speaks lies and is desperate to become prime minister.
Charan Das Mahant
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In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.
Peter Fenton Siouxsie and the Banshees
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In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.
Mark McKinnon
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Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise.
Jimmy Buffett
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There's real strangeness in this world of ours. Back in the machine times, there was so much noise front and back, so to speak, it kept us from knowing what lies behind the surface of things.
James Howard Kunstler
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The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.
Israel Zangwill
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Christianity in the Middle East is shattered. The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken, and dying.
Jeff Fortenberry
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I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.
Joe Lieberman
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The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.
John Maeda
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The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. … Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.
Peter S. Beagle