Lies Quotes

We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.

Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

The German future lies in the hands of our Fuehrer.

Then I grew up and fell in love, I asked my sweetheart, 'what lies ahead?

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

I'm just experimenting with every different type of music you can imagine and seeing where my voice lies and what sounds best. I think when I do finally do the album it will be very eclectic - just loads of different stuff on it. That's what I am hoping.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

I keep reading between the lies.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.