Lie Quotes

"This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now"

Rudolf Otto, Theologian

"Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule"

Daniel Ellsberg, Celebrity

"I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie"

Brent Scowcroft, Public Servant

"I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth"

Christopher Hampton, Playwright

"If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie"

Paul Begala, Journalist

"After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't really socialize with the other actors"

Izabella Scorupco, Actress

"I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think"

Evan Dando, Musician

"I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in"

Charles Manson, Criminal

"I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics"

Courtney Love, Musician

"I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been"

Dave Matthews, Musician

"When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying"

Jeremy Taylor, Clergyman

"Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead"

Giacomo Casanova, Celebrity

"But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere"

Garrett Hardin, Environmentalist

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"

Charles M. Schulz, Cartoonist

"Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up"

Charles M. Schulz, Cartoonist

"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, Writer

"It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it"

Stephen Leacock, Economist

"The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon"

Maria Montessori, Educator

"This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God"

Gottfried Leibniz, Philosopher

"The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God"

Gottfried Leibniz, Philosopher

"The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system"

Edwin Powell Hubble, Scientist

"All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things"

Robert Southey, Poet

"I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards"

Jenny Eclair, Comedian

"I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that"

David Arquette, Actor

"Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president"

Linda Tripp, Celebrity

"Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie"

Paul Scott, Novelist

"The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down"

Natalie Goldberg, Author

"While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph"

Lewis Hine, Photographer

"They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out"

Lester Bowie, Musician

"Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features"

Primo Levi, Scientist