The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot.
Eighty percent of language lies to us.
So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love.
The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.
. . . most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.
When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.
When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood — a truly free society.
A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.
Your teammates see you through the good and the bad. They see where your foundation lies.
Only you," he said, so softly I could barely hear him. "To worship ye with my body, give ye all the service of my hands. To give ye my name, and all my heart and soul with it. Only you. Because ye will not let me lie--and yet ye love me.
The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
Your path lies across the stars.
Our fears lie to us about how important they are.
placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.
Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.
A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly.
When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.
Fascism is a lie told by bullies.
