Lying Quotes - Page 209

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

If someone says that they saw a Sasquatch, they're either lying or they are stupid! Now stop lying about the Jewpacabra before stupid people start believing you!

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.

Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.

You've got to keep things flying.

You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.

We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story.

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

I wasn't prepared for death. Nobody is. You lose someone you love more than you love yourself, and you get a crash course in mortality. You lie awake night after night, wondering if you really believe in heaven and hell and finding all kinds of reasons to cling to faith, because you can't bear to believe they aren't out there somewhere, a few whispered words of a prayer away.

As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

I would be lying, if I said that sometimes it is just a job that you show up for because you're getting paid, and that's important, too. But, if you can be in a state of mind where you enjoy your job, whether it's just a job, or it's actually cathartic for you, or it's something personal. I think it would be much easier to be content with doing a good job.

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have once more above its head the inverted bowl beyond which may lie whatever paradise its desires may create.

What the people out there are calling for is honesty which has been missing for quite some time now. We are tired of all the deceit and incompetence of this government.

If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while.