Lying Quotes
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Every lie has 2 parts - the lie we tell others and the one we tell ourselves to justify it.
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And whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you. I have learned from you. And you’ve made me a better president. And with your stories and your struggles, I return to the White House more determined and more inspired than ever about the work there is to do and the future that lies ahead.
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Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord. Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. Ophelia: What is, my lord? Hamlet: Nothing.
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Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy fidelity I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.
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I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.
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People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. BecauHse people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true.
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But though that place I never gain, Herein lies comfort for my pain: I will be worthy of it.
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However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.
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The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured. Man knows the great consummation in the flesh, the sensual ecstasy, and that is eternal. Also the spiritual ecstasy of unanimity, that is eternal. But the two are separate and never to be confused.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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In general, generalization is to lie, to tell lies.
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Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.
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People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.
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A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.
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The power of the masses can influence any government in the world. The power of the masses can elect an official, start a revolution, and drive history. Nelson Mandela did it alone from his prison cell. Ghandi did it lying down. Egypt did it singing songs.
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This soft grass suggests 'softness' to me, but also at the same time 'lying-down-ness'.
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Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.
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I do not have a child and all allegations saying so are false.
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Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.
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Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!
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They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.
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In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them rests no yoke of line or hue.
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I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.
