Lies Quotes

You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down.

When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.

On all the peaks lies peace.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

My hope lies with people who never go to Washington except to see the monuments.

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.