Lie Quotes - Page 7

Tell yourself the stories you need to tell. But don't be fooled by them. Never live your own lies.

Keep hoping. Be patient and diligent. Never give up. Hold on to your faith. God helps us when we show Him that we are willing to help ourselves.

When you become complacent with someone lying, whether it is a close friend, the media, or your government, then you have essentially given them permission to continue to do so and most often at your expense.

Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.

Pious” is a sword that the clever always use it to eliminate the truth.

The one kiss that was stolen, was given in a lie.

I'm far from perfect- maybe beautifully flawed- but I don't lie

All at once it seemed like too much of a betrayal to continue to pretend that his brother was delirious, hallucinating, not in his right mind. Lying when he was telling the truth. Maybe Kenzie was right-maybe secrets were more the problem than the solution. Maybe Kenzie was the only clearheaded person in that room.And yet-he couldn't supress a twinge of fear that if he told the truth, he'd never see Emma again. Never hear her music again. Their musical connection was the closest he'd ever come to slacking his thirst for a human touch.

Perception is the lie that we convince ourselves exists

If you've treated your girlfriend without respect, taken advantage of her, or cheated on her, your actions have taught her that she has no value. Needless to say, this is a serious, serious injury. If you don't try to make it right, she might start to believe the lie you've told her and spend the rest of her life thinking she deserves poor treatment.

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.

My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place.

I lie about lying, which means I can lie

Bad governments always lie because telling the truth requires honour and courage!

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

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Sometimes you have to lie. Sometimes it’s the only way to protect the ones you love.

If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn't turn around and use it against him. The lie was a way of buying protection.

If you want to be lied to, all you have to do is believe everything that the government tells you.

Of course I do, Jack! You have to beLIEve me!

If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

You lied... now is my TURN!

They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.

Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion.

...and an edge that could cut a truth from a lie.

The truth hurts but a lie will eventually as well

There is no effort in time wasted by remembering the truth. A lie requires an effort of life and wasted time to remember because one lie tends to become a lifestyle that destroys.

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.

Telling the truth is less demanding than telling a lie.

Is there possibility somebody to don't lie and to don't say the truth??- Truth hurts!- Lie, just makes mess after mess and mess and you just die as liar (You don't want it, do you?)

If you don't want a man to lie,don't force him to reply.

Money, Gun and Lie can solve almost all the problems.

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.

If we are teaching children how to lie,to steal, and to be aggressive, why do schools punish those who lie and steal? and why does the society punish the offender criminal?

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

Paradox: Pinocchio says “My nose will grow" if it doesn’t he is lying but it didn’t grow and if it does he is telling the truth and it did?

...the terrible crumple and blanch of a lie come undone...

Everyman has the ability to lie but luckily not everyman has the ability to hide their lies masterly!

Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal.

In real life, the truth is a rarity, while lies are common place.

A lie told in the service of truth is virtue.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

Everyone have two faces, but mine are twins.

Humans lie without a second thought.

They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.

Truth does not need publicity, lies do.

When people close to me lie to me or try manipulating me, I feel like I know how the sun feels when the clouds steal the sun's thunder.

A lie has many colours, while white is the only faithful colour of truth.

Peter," she began. He looked up at her, and she could see the pain in his eyes. "I love you," she said freely. With Peter, she was laid bare; he extracted her from herself.Peter didn't know what to say. HIs eyes glimmered, bright and burning. He only let her see them a moment before he turned away. He took a ragged breath."What were you doing with Rose anyway" she demanded, asking a lot of him.Peter darkened again. He turned his back to her, took a step farther into the alley, and said in a dead voice, "I don't have to like herto get what I want.""I don't believe you," Valerie said, reaching for his face, again. Peter pulled away from her. "You're lying.

I survive at the edge of friends circles.

How have everything started???Just two humans man and woman make so many people on the planet??? That's impossible, it can't happe, it's something else..... SO what you are saying Adam has fucked Eve day and night??? ANd how have they take care for so many kids???... What if the planet is flat and nasa and all other stuff are lieing???

Love spills out of these people. That's what I want. Settling for anything less is a lie.

Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

The best lie someone can tell you is that you will have a bumper harvest when you didn’t plant any seed.

He had you in his room?" A dark cloud crosses Jeb’s face. “Do you swear he didn’t try anything?”“Scout’s honor.”He squeezes my waist, tickling me. “Too bad you were never a Scout.”I squirm and smile. “Nothing happened.”That’s a lie. Morpheus got to me in a big way, showing me a side of myself I can hardly believe exists—one I’m not sure Jeb will be able to accept.