Lies Quotes - Page 25

Some one remarked that the best way to unite all the nations on this globe would be an attack from some other planet. In the face of such an alien enemy, people would respond with a sense of their unity of interest and purpose. We have the next thing to that at the present time

Lies spread quicker than truth because they have longer legs.

Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.

I'm a good liar. A great one. And to be a great liar you have to live your lies, to believe them, to the point that when you tell them to yourself enough times, even what's right before your eyes will bend itself to the falsehood.

Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen.

If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie.

The extent of creativity to which I admire in an individual is his ability to be richly creative while still, in a way, telling the truth. It is the fool who creates only his own lies, and the bore who simply repeats what he is told.

In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.Speech is born out of longing,True description from the real taste.The one who tastes, knows;the one who explains, lies.How can you describe the true form of SomethingIn whose presence you are blotted out?And in whose being you still exist?And who lives as a sign for your journey?

A lie is nothing more than the truth told in reverse

The truth really does set you free — but what they don’t tell you is the process hurts like hell.

She will blind everyone with bright light to cover the truth ...

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of th

The distinction between a delusion and a lie is the very difference between a successful saint and a fraud.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do.

Never be fooled that things are going well when the government seemingly gives out "goody bags" to the public. Those "goodies" are full of poison. They cannot simultaneously pass laws protecting one and then blast others through the media and have us think they are doing us a favor. They are lying psychopaths with an agenda. They may serve corporate masters but their still to blame and as long as the public goes along with them, they are also culpable. Only you can free yourself through freeing your mind.

I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good when really it's for there own good.

The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.

There is strong danger in a person who can create such powerful deceit they can no longer distinguish their own lies from the truth.

It was as if she would never be whole until the secrets of the past were exposed.

Always being truthful gives you a certain kind of freedom. It springs forth like a fountain splashing throughout your body until it floods your soul. To be honest and to be trustworthy are great attributes. Ah, the power, Ah, the freedom

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.

I don't really like lies. I prefer to tell the truth whenever possible. It's much easier to keep track of.

No denial of the truth will ever invalidate it.

Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

Maximus was cleaning his blade on the dead man’s wolfskin. ‘You promised him his life,’ the Greek said. ‘No, I said death was his last worry.’ Maximus swung up on to Pale Horse. ‘Is that not so for all of us?

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me.

If truth is relative, then it’s cousin is anarchy.

In the debate over guns, both sides are angry. The pro-gunners are angry at the ignorance, lies, and distortions of the anti-gunners, and the anti-gunners are angry with the pro-gunners for presenting facts.

The most harmful lies and the most hurtful, always contain a grain of truth," he said. "But nevertheless, lies they do remain.

I have walked a stair of swords,I have worn a coat of scars.I have vowed with hollow words,I have lied my way to the stars-Songs of Sapphique

You're human. It's one of the things humans do. Lies just spring out, even unbidden and unintended.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

People only lie because they are afraid of the truth

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

Every person is a big mystery a thing build of secrets, gambles and lies. That's what's about to be a mankind.

Strength other than that received from God is just hype manufactured by men.

With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth.