Lies Quotes
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Anyone who cares about truth should avoid not politics, but Olympic lies.
Ai Weiwei
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Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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When I played 'Survivor', I sat back many times and marveled that no one had gotten into a real physical altercation. With all the backbiting, lies, and lack of food, a fight didn't sound far off base, considering the strained and fragile emotions.
Jenna Morasca
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
C. S. Lewis
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My brother does a series of movies called 'The Purge,' and they have the third one coming out this year, and then also he'll be starring in the second season of 'Secrets and Lies.' We want each other to win because we are a team, and this is how we've been since day one. That's the end game for all of us in the Hodge house.
Aldis Hodge
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The child is not mine as the first was,I cannot sing it to rest,I cannot lift it up fatherlyAnd bliss it upon my breast;Yet it lies in my little one's cradleAnd sits in my little one's chair,And the light of the heaven she's gone toTransfigures its golden hair.
James Russell Lowell
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Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface... .
Philippe Halsman
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The justice system can't be totally free of lies and distortion; after all, courts are chock-full of lawyers.
Charles Seife
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
Rita Mae Brown
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Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.
Norodom Sihanouk
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control - when they write lies at least - because the laws can't really protect you unless you can prove malicious intent. So I just choose not to read it.
Ashton Kutcher
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You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as President. It reminds me of Jackie Robinson, how he had to be very careful to reassure people that this was all right. And you still have people trying to tear him down. They make up all sorts of lies, with the goal of making him seem illegitimate.
Ato Essandoh
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Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane
Sarah Kane
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Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.
D. H. Lawrence
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Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
Victor Hugo
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I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.
Marilyn Monroe
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Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
Heraclitus
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In India, we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths.
Ashwin Sanghi
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The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just 'trusting in God' to give me the moves.
Bobby Fischer
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The magic of the cave image lies in its being, not in its being seen. The symbolic does not refer. It is. (p. 350)
Marshall McLuhan