Top 1200 Good Lies Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I prefer lies to truth, especially when the lies are about me.

the solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the collective and institutional power to make change, at least as much as with the individual will to change. It also lies in the absolute moral imperative to break the childish, deadly circularity of centuries of blindness to the shimmering brilliance of our common, ordinary humanity.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.

They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.

Sight is about what lies right in front of us. Vision is what lies ahead.

I was fighting it left all day, just enough to get myself in difficult positions to get up and down. The par 5s have been good to be all week, and the three places I missed, I didn't get good lies.

Don't listen to the lies, I swear they all lies. You know I could be your knight in shining Armor All tires.

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys!

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.

The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.

There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all

...and when you’ve known me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.” “Even the lies?” “Especially the lies.

Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.

A liar lies to others. A fool lies to herself.

So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.

Integrity, number one. Even in business that's predicated on lies I refuse to become part of the lies that is all-consuming.

Lies, lies are the place where darkness grows.

The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.

To reach up for the new, you must let go of the old. What lies behind you is not nearly as important as what lies in front of you.

Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

That's where my vision lies and my passion lies, leaving the game in a better place for my fellow players than it was when I came in.

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future.

The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.

The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.

How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

We're not really good at knowing what we want, and we are quick to say 'this sucks'. That's where the opportunity lies.

All hopes are lies, all expectations of the future are lies.

Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.

Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Behind every good woman lies a trail of men.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

As a cameraman, I am interested in images and truth. Today, people are conditioned to accept lies if they are commercial lies. What we don't see anymore is ethics.

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.

humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.

Kejriwal's only mantra is to tell lies and talk forcefully and repeatedly, but Delhi cannot develop with telling lies.

Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

I think first we have to begin by telling the truth, which I think has actually been a big stumbling block. We can look at Donald Trump and see how he lies, but I think we also have to look at some of the lies we've told ourselves and the lies we've accepted and internalized ourselves.

Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

You will free yourself from emotional drama by uncovering all the lies you believe in. It is a process of unlearning the lies. It is a period of cleansing, and it has nothing to do with the dream of society.

We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.

Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.