Top 1200 Telling Lies Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

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

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

Being on stage, telling jokes and telling stories is where I feel the most at home.

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

It really gets me when the critics say I haven't done enough for the economy. I mean, look what I've done for the book publishing industry. You've heard some of the titles. 'Big Lies,' 'The Lies of George W. Bush,' 'The Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.' I'd like to tell you I've read each of these books, but that'd be a lie.

I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.

I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself. I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts.

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

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

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.

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

There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. Ive got no plans to stop doing it.

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

Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.

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

True success - financial, personal, and professional - lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion. In telling your story. In authenticity, hustle, and patience. In caring fiercely about the big and the small stuff. In valuing legacy over currency.

People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

Little lies that make people feel better are not bad, like thanking someone for a meal they made even if you hated it, or telling a sick person they look better when they don't, or someone with a hideous new hat that it's lovely. But to yourself you must tell the truth

There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.

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

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

There is more power in telling little than in telling all.

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.

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

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

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

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

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.

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.

I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well organized and just as well predicated, but the big difference between me and you is that I'm honest and you're dishonest. I know I'm telling you lies.

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.

I sometimes say that I don't make anything up - obviously that's not true. But I am uninterested in writers who say that everything comes out of the imagination. I would rather be in a room with someone who is telling the story of his life, which may be exaggerated and even have lies in it, but I want to hear the true story, essentially.

Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning over the drums, telling them to tune their guitars, micromanaging.

I may know I am better than an 18, but the computer absorbs my scores year after year and continues to tell me that is what I am. Therein lies the tragedy of golf. We know what we should be, but there is always some number telling us what it is.

I'm a Hemingway fan, so in a manner of speaking, I've been fishing with him already. But man, would I love to board Pilar in Key West and head south until we have a day-long battle with a tarpon, haul that bad boy up, then celebrate by telling lies over rum on a Cuban terrace.

We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths.

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

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

The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.

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

Right now, the leadership in Iran is telling their citizens one thing. Our President is telling us another.

That's the moment you look for as a writer, when the characters start telling you what they are doing rather than you telling them.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

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

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.

Let our lives be firmly rooted in Truth. Abstain from lies. In this dark age of materialism, adherence to truth is the greatest austerity. We might have to tell lies now and then to protect somebody or to sustain dharma, but we must be careful not to speak lies for our own selfish purposes.

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

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.

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

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