I don’t live a lie. You have to understand that people who choose not to discuss their personal lives are not living a lie. That is a presumption that people jump to.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Lie and tell the waiter that you’re deathly allergic to butter. This way you can enjoy the steak without all the excess fat.
I’ve had gay friends who grew up in small towns in France who had to lie for most of their lives, even to themselves. But eventually such lies become stronger than the people, and they have to face them.
Just because you have a blog doesn’t mean that you should, like, lie for no reason.
Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.
I try to lie as much as I can when I’m interviewed. It’s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they’ll print the truth.
The solution really has to lie within the Iraqi people.
If I’m sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don’t know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, ‘What should I do?’ So it’s meditative.
Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don’t like to lie to myself.
When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can’t lie like that anymore.
A snowdrift is a beautiful thing – if it doesn’t lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.
A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
You don’t have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
I could lie and tell you I’m a hardcore gamer – I’m not.
I can’t lie… My face always gives me away. I’m also pathetically bad at poker!
I remember going out alone in a canoe. Somebody told me to lie in the bottom of the canoe and just drift. It was a small lake and I was perfectly safe. So I did that, and I drifted. It was quiet and peaceful. Suddenly, I heard a loon cry the first time I ever heard that marvelous sound.
You think when you start getting jobs that it’ll get easier, but that’s the biggest lie ever. It gets harder. You have to put in more work. I wish it were the casting couch days because it’d be a lot easier!
I work for the British people. I do not gather intelligence so the government can lie to the British people.
It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the ‘bad girl’ or the ‘good girl’ or the ‘bad mother’ or ‘the good mother,’ ‘the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children’ or ‘the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,’ all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.
If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: their interests in business lie on or near the Earth’s surface. The odd one out is an astronomer, and I am one of that strange breed.
I refuse to lie to children.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don’t lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won’t stand up either.
We need to create a sense of shame about racism, and about leaders who deliberately mislead and lie.
Playing a bad guy would be fun, I’m not going to lie. I’d definitely do that in a heartbeat, because it’s so out of my nature.
Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.
To say I’m the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.
Aside from my work, my interests lie in the arts and in world affairs.
I would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that’s a lie!
A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we’re wearing – if it’s red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well.
My personal life is lived as ‘me,’ but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become ‘someone else.’ That’s my job.
And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can’t find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.
Fans don’t lie. They just tell you what they really think, and they see details that even people in fashion don’t.
‘Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven’s the greatest pain in hell.
I don’t think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we’re someone else. I don’t tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.
When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, ‘Why do you work? If I were you, I’d just go and lie on a beach somewhere.’ And I’d answer, ‘Well, I wanted to make something of my life.’
The notion that the ‘leader’ has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise – if you’d be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut – that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong.
I’m not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it – golf, HGTV, football.
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
I’m very strange, I’m not going to lie.
Picasso said, ‘Art is a lie that tells the truth.’ What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
I don’t think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there’s some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
The claim that Israel seeks to annihilate the Palestinians is simply a lie. Israel seeks to stop rocket attacks and tunnel invasions, and as long as Hamas is dedicated to those actions, they can expect a forceful Israeli reaction.
What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
People lie when they get upset.
It is my position that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.
Truth is seldom appreciated and never understood, whereas a flattering lie is always appreciated and instantly understood.
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.
Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
