Lie Quotes

"For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me"

Andrei Sakharov, Physicist

"Don't lie if you don't have to"

Leo Szilard, Scientist

"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"

George Crabbe, Poet

"Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act"

Thomas Jane, Actor

"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"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God"

Frances Farmer, Actress

"Politicians often lie"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age"

John Jay Chapman, Poet

"Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back"

Zhu Rongji, Statesman

"I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act"

Yitzhak Rabin, Statesman

"Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines"

Paracelsus, Scientist

"When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write"

Chantal Kreviazuk, Musician

"When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women"

Hugo Claus, Novelist

"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"

Kiri Te Kanawa, Musician

"Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?"

Christine O'Donnell, Politician

"Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest"

Larry Speakes, Public Servant

"Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"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"

Matt Dillon, Actor

"But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie"

Roberto Bolano, Novelist

"Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie"

I. F. Stone, Journalist

"If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours"

Belle Boyd, Celebrity

"People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests"

James Bovard, Author

"If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did"

Steve Guttenberg, Actor

"I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I"

Roone Arledge, Journalist

"You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside"

James Daly, Actor

"Women lie about their age; men lie about their income"

William Feather, Author

"I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing"

Jason Isaacs, Actor

"Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth"

Peter Straub, Writer

"Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was"

Mary Cheney, Celebrity

"We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead"

Philip Gibbs, Journalist

"It's a humorous statement that doesn't mean anything. You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous"

Jimmy Swaggart, Clergyman

"In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well"

Sandra Bullock, Actress

"I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while"

Max Eastman, Author

"It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him"

Donald Cargill, Clergyman

"I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road"

Kristen Bell, Actress

"Many good purposes lie in the churchyard"

Philip Massinger, Poet

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