Top 1200 Living A Lie Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.

Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.

Numbers don't lie. Women lie, men lie, but numbers don't lie.

I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.

I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.

Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth; the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. . . . Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

A lie is a lie... unless your friends and family are in on it. Then it's a "commonly held belief."

They all lie, from the top man down to the bottom. If their lips are moving, a lie is unfolding.

I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

If I lie, I forget what I said the first time. I won't remember the lie. I don't know how people do it.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, "Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars - they lie! What else would you expect them to do?

The lie is, even if you do work out, you'll never look like Madonna. That's the lie.

But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.

Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die

I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience unless you know your truth, and you're not living a lie.

I am not a trained actor, and for me, getting under the skin of a character, living their lives, is important, or the audience will catch my lie.

Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

I'm not going to lie, living in London is incredible. You've got so much going on.

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

You don't know how to lie. If you can't lie, you'll never go anywhere.

Life is a lie if truth is not found. Truth is just an idea if it is not lived. It is living that matters.

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

I don't lie." "You don't lie," I repeated. "That's what I said." "Ever." "Nope." Sure you don't, I thought.

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realized I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.

Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.

The New York Times, they lie. They lie like I've never seen anything.

It’s just as easy to lie to yourself as it is to lie to other people. Maybe easier.

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

There Is No Terrorist Threat In This Country. This Is A Lie. This Is The Biggest Lie We've Been Told.

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket.

It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.

I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.

I find that I don't lie about the big things in life. The things that matter. And about me. While I'm talking about myself, I rarely lie: I know who I am, my level of talent, that I'm not the most versatile filmmaker, the person I am. I don't lie about myself because I don't lie to myself.

I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I knew they drew blood. And then there was the black lie. That's the worst of all. A black lie was when I told you the truth.

Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.

Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you're probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; you're going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; it's human nature.

Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

Astrology's roots lie in an ancient world-view which perceived the universe as a single living organism, animated by divine order and intelligence.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

Sometimes,” Sam says, “I can’t tell when you’re lying.” “I never lie,” I lie.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.

There is us living the Cuban experience that we believe is ours. We do not believe that it is perfect, but it has been above all counting truly on the people, which is where the origins of true democracy lie.

Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first.

Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.

You always have to lie. I've been in plays that people don't enjoy and I pray that they lie to my face when I come outside.

That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.

But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.