Lies Quotes
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For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!
Thomas Carlyle
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The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
Leon Trotsky -
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Jean Rostand -
At some point all lies are brought to the surface and truth comes forth no matter how hard we try to hide it.
Gabrielle Bernstein -
This kind of give-and-take lies at the heart of scientific progress and is precisely why scientific analyses are made available in the open literature.
Bruce Alberts -
Lake quiets, tired of my lies.
Deborah Ager -
Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?
Martin Luther
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher -
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
Miguel de Cervantes -
Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.
David Ignatius -
The best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe.
Jasper Fforde -
I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
I actually didn't find too many differences between B-town and the south. The difference lies in the temperature. I was shooting when it was 45 degrees Celsius in Chennai; Mumbai is cooler.
Amy Jackson
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The dog looked up in entreaty. Liquid brown eyes begged: Take me with you. I’ll be good. Oh, the lies that dogs told.
Courtney Milan -
When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold; When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West, Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is best!
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art.
Thomas Aquinas -
I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
George Eliot -
The sun in your eyes makes some of the lies worth believing.
Elle Schneider -
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Miguel de Cervantes
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The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
In compassion lies the world's true strength.
Gautama Buddha -
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
Alexandre Dumas -
Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.
Paul Neilan