As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.
WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.
I was living a life of a lie, I really was.
You can legally lie about the real world to your heart’s content, but until some human being is materially damaged, nobody will complain.
I’m not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It’s all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
The idea that you’re not a writer until you’re published is a lie.
Serious writers pretend they don’t care about film adaptations of their work, but it’s a colossal lie: We all care.
I couldn’t lie to get myself fame and fortune.
I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.
Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.
I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.
The truth is, when you make movies, you have to learn how to lie. You have to convince people to give you money and you pretend they’ll get double, triple or 10 times as much.
Numbers don’t lie. Women lie, men lie, but numbers don’t lie.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
When we’re upset, our vocal cords tighten and we can’t speak. And when I lie – well, I can’t lie, because the same thing happens – everyone who knows me knows that when I start squeaking, I’ve started lying.
I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don’t lie. I tell the truth.
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
I mean, Ed Snowden was basically saying the same things that Bill Binney and Thomas Drake and other U.S. whistleblowers had said before him. But he came out more publicly, and maybe revealed more. He showed that when the U.S. government said, ‘We are not surveilling U.S. citizens,’ that was a lie.
Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.
When someone is looking down, they’re saying no. When they’re looking up, they’re looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they’re looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they’re feeling sorry – they don’t want to answer.
Actions lie louder than words.
As a kid I’d lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It’s my fatalistic streak, which I’ve inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don’t know.
You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.
Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.
Too much of British business and industry feels similarly secure in the warm embrace of the European single market and is failing to recognise that today’s great export opportunities lie in the developing world, particularly in Asia.
Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.
A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
I’m trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years.
It’s okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.
It is a peculiar part of the good photographer’s adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
There’s only two people in your life you should lie to… the police and your girlfriend.
I don’t think lying has any ultimate justification. I don’t think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That’s one of the challenges in a way.
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
My fans know me and love me the way I am. I don’t want to lie to my fans.
Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.
He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.
In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.
I’m the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.
First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can tell a lie or change something that is written in black and white.
I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don’t want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit.
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.
You can’t lie down in the ashes of another person’s life.
My favorite moment is when someone says, ‘I like ‘Unleashed.’ ‘Now You See Me’ is so much fun.’ That’s what I want to do: smart, fun and big movies. I cannot lie, I love working with those big paint brushes. I have a blast doing these movies.
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It’s the federal government and the Justice Department. It’s a fraud; it’s a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it.
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.
Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.
People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.
Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
I touched Roger’s bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I’m damn proud of that.
I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.
You can be a namby-pamby leftie, a gun-toting neo-con, or a soft, indecisive moderate. I really don’t care. Just don’t lie to me.
Sometimes it’s just ‘Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.’ I’m not going to lie to you – I deal with that temptation every single day, many times.
People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don’t want to hear it.
It’s important that you don’t lie to yourself. If you lie to yourself, you end up with burnout.
