Lie Quotes

"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"

Marjorie Holmes, Writer

"Justice and judgment lie often a world apart"

Emmeline Pankhurst, Activist

"I truly believe the brightest days lie ahead for the Great State of Hawaii"

Linda Lingle, Politician

"It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie"

Scott Bakula, Actor

"As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy"

Nursultan Nazarbayev, Politician

"I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished"

Willem Dafoe, Actor

"Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed"

Sarah Brady, Activist

"This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms"

Joni Mitchell, Musician

"And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem"

Mark Strand, Poet

"The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie"

Joseph Brodsky, Poet

"And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever"

Milos Forman, Director

"I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be"

Ricky Martin, Musician

"Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education"

Tommy Rettig, Actor

"The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth"

Harold Evans, Journalist

"A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism"

Fred W. Friendly, Producer

"The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie"

Theodore White, Journalist

"If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams"

Joel McHale, Comedian

"Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

"Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket"

Lillian Gordy Carter, Celebrity

"So I think what you see in this show is it's really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that's where the differences lie"

Andre Braugher, Actor

"You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around"

Stevie Ray Vaughan, Musician

"The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?"

Jef I. Richards, Professor

"Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the"

Mary McCarthy, Author

"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away"

Robert M. Hutchins, Educator

"Lying can never save us from another lie"

Vaclav Havel, Leader

"My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me"

Derek Jeter, Athlete

"It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it"

James Agee, Novelist

"A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars"

David Antin, Poet

"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks"

Joe Scarborough, Politician

"If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure"

Joe Rogan, Comedian

"I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie"

Gene Simmons, Musician

"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"

Emma Thompson, Actress

"Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government"

Donald Sutherland, Actor

"Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'"

Demi Moore, Actress

"I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin"

Hugh Laurie, Comedian

"And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie"

Colin Mochrie, Actor

"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"

Bruce Nauman, Sculptor

"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on"

Dean Martin, Actor

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