Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense. — Richard Dawkins
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. — Le Corbusier
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth. — William Faulkner
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. — Unknown Author
Short Lies Quotes
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. — Winston Churchill
Before the TRUTH can set you free,you must first recognize which LIES are holding you hostage. — Prince Ea
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie. — Miyamoto Musashi
History is a set of lies agreed upon. — Napoleon Bonaparte
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Focus on big things. — Mother Teresa
The less time you spend with Truth, the easier it is to believe lies. — LeCrae
The only limit to the power of Almighty God lies within you & me. — Sayings
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! — Mark Twain
Lies Image Quotes
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. — Al Pacino
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. — Dean Martin
Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart. — Rumi
The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end. — Genghis Khan
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. — Albert Einstein
Tell a lie once and all your truths become questionable.
Why Tell Lies Quotes
I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much. — Penelope Cruz
If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied. — Rudyard Kipling
There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do. — John Cusack
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth. — Eric Carr
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth? — Jean Rostand
I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why they so often make murder their absolution. The truth of crime lies not with the victim but with the witness. — R. Scott Bakker
Never lie to someone who trusts you and never trust someone who lies to you.
Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies? — Alice Munro
The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’. — John Steinbeck
Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict. — Hunter S. Thompson
A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain. — Bill Cosby
Lying To Get What You Want Quotes
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. — Garrison Keillor
There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt. — Jodi Picoult
If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having. — Denis Johnson
If you focus on what you left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead.
I’m gone for eight months…If you feel that it’s critical to contact me, that I get involved in your problem, what I want you to do is to lie down. When that feeling goes away, I want you to get up, solve the problem, and then send me an e-mail with the solution. — Bob Davids
Lying Phrases Quotes
Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity. — Alan Hirsch
The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. — Wilfred Owen
A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice. — Isaac Babel
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesnt' become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind. — W. S. Gilbert
Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling. — Irving Howe
You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them. — Chris Carter
A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself. — Storm Jameson
I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key. — Shane McCrae
Let us make war on the phrase 'violence doesn't solve anything.' It is a lie, and anyone who utters it cannot be taken morally seriously. — Dennis Prager
Lying Down Quotes
The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has. — Genghis Khan
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future. — Queen Elizabeth II
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about. — Rumi
A lie has many variations, the truth none.
I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming. — George Muller
The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety. — Sathya Sai Baba
You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. — C. S. Lewis
Our greatest weaknes lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just on more time.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. — Joseph Campbell
You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived. — Gertrude Stein
Lie down with dogs and you’ll rise with fleas. — Irish Proverbs
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. — Bodhidharma
Lying In Bed Quotes
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. — Beatrix Potter
I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied. — Jeff Buckley
You made your bed, now you have to lie in it. — English Proverbs
Hurt me with the TRUTH but never comfort me with a LIE!
What does God do all day long? He gives birth. From the beginning of eternity, God lies on a maternity bed giving birth to all. God is creating this whole universe full and entire in this present moment. — Meister Eckhart
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. — Allen Ginsberg
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week, Or if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies. — William Shakespeare
It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they? — Carl Sagan
You start to let go on the day you take one step toward building a new life and then let yourself lie in bed and stare at the ceiling and cry for as many hours as you need. — Brianna Wiest
Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. — Raymond Carver
Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. — Thomas De Quincey
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. — Blaise Pascal
You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. — Marilyn Monroe
For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself — Kanye West
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies. — Julio Cortazar
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. — Margot Asquith
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Oswald Spengler
White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion. — William S. Paley
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. — Arthur Calwell
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