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Lie Quotes


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


"I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides."


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



"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."


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


"I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin."


"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."


"I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette."


"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."


"Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness."


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


"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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"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."


"The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies."


"But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments."


"In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player."


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


"I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest."


"Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up."


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


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


"When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white."


"Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for."


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


"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."
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