Lie Quotes
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Study after study shows that people are much less likely to lie to a person they consider to be honest.
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I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.
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As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other lands where people were doing fascinating things. By fifth grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but it took several more decades to really find my way as an author.
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But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?
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Tell me Zach.” I don’t know if it was the wind or the adrenaline, but I shivered. “And don’t lie to me.
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You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'
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A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.
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I love the Beatles. What more can I say? I'm not gonna lie to you. I love 'em. They make me happy. And I think they were the best, and still are.
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Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through, Though I am damned for it we two will lie And burn, here where the starlings fly
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I see before me the gladiator lie.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.
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Man is bound to lie about himself.
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What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church ... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.
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Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.
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This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.
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I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie.
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Above all, do not lie to yourself.
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The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
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The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed.
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The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.
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Nobody told me you were cheating, it's just a feeling I had. So if I'm right, you got to lie to me, then I won't feel so bad.
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I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.
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I was born and bred in Coventry. I played for the club as well, so that's where my liaisons lie.
