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Lie Quotes


"But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue."
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"One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know."


"With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move."


"Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup."


"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."


"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."


"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."


"A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie."


"There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do."


"The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round."


"There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact."


"What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists."


"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."


"A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination."


"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"


"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."


"The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie."


"Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path."


"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."


"I truly believe the brightest days lie ahead for the Great State of Hawaii."
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