Lying Quotes
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Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
William Landay
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A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
Richard Pryor
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O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.
William Shakespeare
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If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.
Studs Terkel
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Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.
William Glasser
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Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.
Jerry Coleman
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I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.
Helen McCrory
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Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.
William Shakespeare
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My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.
William Shakespeare
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I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on this point during the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama and McCain both ran on a clean energy platform. But now, uncontested lies have eroded hard-won public understanding. So, we have to go back and make the case again.
Van Jones
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Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness.
Galt Niederhoffer
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As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So, a reason to go into a career in science and technology, or to learn more about these subjects, is to become a more powerful person.
Ann Druyan
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Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.
Sarah Palin
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It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
Lou Holtz
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You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.
William Shakespeare
