Lies Quotes

My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr.C, who used to be Mr.B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies.

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

Now, China, India have set goals. We're going to be able to review what they're doing. We're going to be able to challenge them if they don't meet those goals. We're going to pursue this anyway, because the President understands that our future lies with a clean energy economy. We've doubled renewables this year. There are millions of jobs to be had there, more energy security, so we're going to pursue this.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

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

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.

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.