I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would not wish that pain on anyone.
I wish I could come home to a life that looks like a TV show. I wish I could see my television family waiting for me, where no one fights and no one screams, no one lies and no one leaves.
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.
The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven’t got a clue what lies ahead, they’re always searching into the past for some sort of pattern … to galvanise the nation or their supporters and put themselves on a pedestal to sound Churchillian or Rooseveltian.
I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Before speaking without knowledge, saying lies, you have to present evidence.
Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.
Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That’s how passive violence rolls.
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
The secret of success lies in realising one’s mistake, understanding where one went wrong and taking steps to rectify that mistake.
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
Fears and lies intensify consciousness.
Uneasy lies the head that craves the crown.
The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.
The kids all knew me from Wayne’s World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies.
The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.
But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it’s the writer or the spy.
Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do – they pay surveyors to take a look.
For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.
Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.
I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I’ve always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies.
Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It’s giving people new expectations. It’s allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you’ll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the Earth, that’s 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. It’s one of the most ancient and intact bits of the Earth’s crust.
It’s not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it’s extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.
Let my body be delivered to the earth without attention to the place where it lies; nothing should be associated with my dusty remains. Shame on him who draws any attention to a rotted flesh that is already no longer mine: he is worshipping the worms nibbling it.
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
I would definitely welcome lighter material, but I like to be where the truth lies.
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime’s so great as daring to excel.
In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.
India and the United States have taken a decisive step, away from the past. The dawn of the new century has marked a new beginning in our relations. Let us work to fulfil this promise and the hope of today. Let us remove the shadow of agitation that lies between us and our joint vision.
Not drunk is he who from the floor – Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves – and the most memorable and beautiful outfits are simply those that, in some rare moment of joy, we found the courage to share with the world.
People don’t throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.
I was brought up in a Democrat household. My mom believed the lies she was told, that she needed government to raise her five children.
In a fascist system, it’s not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can’t tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.
And remember, it’s also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
Paralysis in decision-making breeds frustration and contempt from the electorate, and provides the perfect seedbed for demagogues who fill the vacuum with populist simplicities, hatred of opposition and lies.
I think it’s time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all of them flattering. But the true, volatile charisma of New York lies in how balkanised it is.
The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
I never really tell lies, and sometimes it has worked against me.
To get a child’s trust – you may know or not – is a very hard thing to do. They’re so used to not believing adults – because adults tell tales and lies all the time.
When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.
I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.
Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I’m paid to tell elaborate lies.
Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.
