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Lie Quotes


"I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally."


"On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died."


"It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine."


"Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed."


"One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know."



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


"Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true."


"A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period."



"Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion."



"I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack."


"When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on."


"So I think what you see in this show is it's really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that's where the differences lie."



"Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."



"If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts."


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


"But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere."


"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant."


"Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us."



"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away."


"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards."


"There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies."


"The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now."


"Where there is a worker, there lies a nation."


"I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun."


"Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent."
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"I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid."



"The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter."
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