Lying Quotes
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I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.
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It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.
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Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse.
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In each of us lies sleeping beauty, wasted potential, dying dreams. We sleep and live in dormant twilight, never knowing what it means to live, to love the bits of heaven that we can unearth deep in our hearts; not recognizing that our salvation is ever-present in those parts that we have disowned, denied, forgotten. The thorns of fear thwart faint attempt. The prince is courage, the kiss believing and then with these our life begins.
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I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.
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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
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I can say that it's 10 miles from my home to Trinity, when in fact that's not quite right, it's off by about 10%, but nobody would say that I'm telling a lie or making a mistake when I rounded off because that's the way we speak and rounded off terms regularly.
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One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the liar can no more avoid it than he can avoid blinking his eyes when a light flashes or jumping when a bomb goes off behind him.
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
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When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
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Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
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Lying can never save us from another lie.
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Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.
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Any conductor who tells you that if he is approached for the directorship of the Chicago Symphony that he's not interested in it, you know perfectly well he's lying.
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No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language.
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I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.
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This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the notes you want on the technical data, anything you forget you can look up again, but this must be engraved on your hearts in letters of fire. There is nothing, nothing, nothing, more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool metal. That’s all.
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We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.
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Success is not built on what we accomplish for ourselves. Its foundation lies in what we do for others.
