Top 1200 Lies We Tell Ourselves Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--

Not many people are true, fake as the lies they tell

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not.

When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.

Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.

Funny isn’t it?” said Sebastian. “The lies good people tell. He’ll probably make you eggs every day for the rest of your life now, and you’ll choke them down because you can’t tell him you don’t like them.” Clary thought of the Seelie Queen. “Love makes liars of us all?

When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.

Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.

People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

Every lie has 2 parts - the lie we tell others and the one we tell ourselves to justify it.

Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.

Men lie the most, women tell the biggest lies.

Liberals tell amazing lies about guns and everything else.

In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

I actually tell lies for a living. Exactly. I mean, that's what acting is, really.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction

Tell the truth, lies are difficult to remember.

I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.

We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story.

But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.

What does it matter, if we tell the same old stories? ...Stories tell us who we are. What we’re capable of. When we go out looking for stories we are, I think, in many ways going in search of ourselves, trying to find understanding of our lives, and the people around us. Stories, and language tell us what’s important.

If someone lies to you, be quick to forgive & they'll be more apt to tell you the truth.

The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.

the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

Some promises are lies we never meant to tell.

You don't want to rely on an expert to tell you what lies ahead.

Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lies; it lies instinctively, lies because its nature does not allow it to do anything else.

If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.

I tell so many lies, sweetheart," he said. "which one specifically?

I don't tell lies about anybody. That's why i win all my wars.

Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone.

I never really tell lies, and sometimes it has worked against me.

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

Tell no lies' claim no easy victories

In general, generalization is to lie, to tell lies.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.

One of the great things about us Jews is that we tell the best jokes. Part of the reason is we tell jokes against ourselves - before anyone else gets to do it.

Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.

It's kind of strange-- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it.

Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.

I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.

A slow smile curved over my face, and I leaned down over him. "No," I said. "Wishes are lies. Tell me you're going to leave. Tell me you're not going to stay. Tell me that it's only for a while so I can enjoy today," I whispered in his ear, as if saying it louder would break me. "And when you go, don't think me cold when I don't cry. I can't cry anymore, Pierce. It hurts too much.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

As important in a trusting relationship as the truths you share are the lies you never have to tell.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

the chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies.