Top 1200 Never Lie Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?

So the Dark did a simple thing. They showed the maker of the sword his own uncertainty and fear. Fear of having done the wrong thing--fear that having done this one great thing, he would never again be able to accomplish anything of great worth--fear of age, of insufficiency, of unmet promise. All such great fears, that are the doom of people given the gift of making, and lie always somewhere in their minds.

You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.

Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.

I won't lie to you. It's better to have someone to help you. I need it...

If you're not being yourself, it shows immediately. The camera doesn't lie.

But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

A very honest woman but something given to lie

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed.

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!

And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.

Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.

Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.

A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.

...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.

the best lie is wrapped around a core of truth

Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

If the lie is large enough, everyone will believe it.

Today, Americans of all political stripes are coming to a similar, sad realization about our president. A recent Fox News poll asked Americans 'How often does Barack Obama lie to the country on important matters?' Thirty-seven percent said 'most of the time,' 24 percent said 'some of the time,' and 20 percent said 'only now and then.' Just 15% said 'never.'

You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right now. Every time we perceive ourselves, others, life, the world and God in a certain way, we are deepening the habits that will take over in old age. Every time I act on the insights that I am getting now I am deciding my future and choosing to be a kindly or cynical old man. Our yesterdays lie heavily upon our todays and our todays will lie heavily upon our tomorrows.

One of the greatest struggles of bureaucracies is they get built and created, but they design themselves in such a way that they can never be at fault. They can never be wrong, they can never have made a mistake and they never want to relent.

To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.

If you are truthful you will survive. If you lie you shall perish.

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

I shouldn't have to ask for your permission for me to put you in my lie!

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

The solution really has to lie within the Iraqi people.

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.

An honest lie is better than a boring truth.

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

I'm not gonna lie: I was not a big 'Star Wars' geek.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.

That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.

The bitterest truth is better than the sweetest lie.

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.

Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.

Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path

I like big butts and I cannot lie

Never... never... whether you are five or 100, never give up. It's never too late.

Never be in debt. Never reside near enemies. Never trap your body through disease. Never forget the Lord with his consort who resides in the heart.

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.

I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

Behind good brands lie stakeholder companies.

It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.

He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.

Indecisiveness and procrastination are the chosen ways of life for most people. They follow the course of least resistance, which is to do nothing. This provides a security blanket of never being wrong, never making mistakes, never being disappointed and never failing. But they will also never succeed.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

You lie long enough and you start to get used to it.

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.