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I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
It was the kind of light that rests on your shoulders the way a cat lies on your lap. So familiar.
— Marilynne Robinson
Relationship built on the foundation of lies is destined to fall".
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.
— Ellen Meloy
There are several theories on sex and all of them are lies.
— Santosh Kalwar
Thighs made of hymns, I read 'em like I'm reading runes. Now tell me where my future lies ... your neck, can I Savion on it?
— Brandi L. Bates
Alas, not me, lord!" she said. "Shadow lies on me still. Look not to me for healing! I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If you want to be successful faster, you must double your rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.
— Brian Tracy
T often falls out that somewhat is produced of nothing; for lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
— Francis Bacon
I'll be a grieving mom until I die because of the lies that took my son, ... I plan on keeping this up until the troops are brought home.
— Cindy Sheehan
Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The best lies are based on the
truth, at least in part — Cassandra Clare
truth, at least in part — Cassandra Clare
The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.
— Hilaire Belloc
Here lies David Elginbrod
Have mercy on my soul, dear God,
As I would ye if I were God
And ye were David Elginbrod. — George MacDonald
Have mercy on my soul, dear God,
As I would ye if I were God
And ye were David Elginbrod. — George MacDonald
The brain is unreliable. It relies on lies.
— Brian Spellman
Don't fasten on Dorothy. Only unanswerable longing lies down that road. Gone is gone.
— Gregory Maguire
We know that the world is not resting on the horn of a bull; we also know that it rests on the horn of lies!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
It's not so much about moving on, is it?" he said. "It's more about letting go. There lies the challenge.
— Katie Kacvinsky
He lied all the time even when there was no need to lie [ ... ] He needed a _history_, a sense of self. [Burnside on his father, p. 22]
— John Burnside
but on Barsoom no man lies; if he does not wish to speak the truth he is silent.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
He who feeds on gossip vomits lies.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths.
— Faraaz Kazi
We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man.
— Erich Maria Remarque
My sole hope for heaven lies in the full atonement made upon Calvary's cross for the ungodly. On that I firmly rely.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.
— Benito Mussolini
All I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies.
— Rebecca Makkai
Here lies one whose name was writ on water.
— John Keats
Conviction says, 'My behavior was wrong.' Satan, on the other hand, floods our hearts with shame. Shame says, 'There is something wrong with me.
— Dale Forehand
Depending on what you allow, you can still get the blues, man. I'm still trying to figure out where the blues really lies, where the street is.
— Christian Scott
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
— Theodore Roosevelt
We are sitting on top of a vast cultural and historical pyramid of accumulated misconceptions, lies and myths, built one on top of the other.
— Bryant McGill
You can stand on truth but you will limp on lies.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
— Robert Jordan
My pants are on fire!
— John Ziegler
The enemy is fierce and he would like for you to think that he has on. Don't believe his lie.
— Brother Andrew
The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.
— Naum Gabo
I believe now that we're the enemy to the things we really want for our lives. We get really good at telling ourselves ugly lies on repeat.
— Hannah Brencher
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.
— Charlton Ogburn
I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.
— Jacques-Louis David
Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
— Knute Nelson
In theory man is put at the center of everything but in practice he is barely allowed to sit on the sidelines
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.
— Kurt Vonnegut
It is usually easier to see what lies on the surface of a person rather than taking the time and attention to delve deeper. ~ Lord John "Jack" Byron
— Tracy Anne Warren
When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.
— Stefan Molyneux
I should not have lied, but I did. Later, those lies came back to haunt me, bread cast on the water, tenfold.
— Michael Lee West
Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.
— George MacDonald
A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
— Terry Pratchett
Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.
— Eartha Kitt
Success is not built on what we accomplish for ourselves. Its foundation lies in what we do for others.
— Danny Thomas
We never looked quite right on paper, but that's what made us so great. We were exactly what we wanted to be ... and that was happy.
— Hope Alcocer
Is there a spot on earth where such a man is unknown, an ominous survival testifying to the eternal fitness of lies and impudence?
— Joseph Conrad
That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones.
— Jennifer Lee Carrell
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
— Larry Wall
After years on a drunken bender, Americans are awakening to lies masked in patriotism and glory.
— Chris Hedges
We can all look on the Internet and go, 'He hates me! Oh, but she loves me. Oh, but he hates me,' you know. And that way, madness lies.
— Martin Freeman
All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly.
— Stephen Richards
Perhaps by sharing my personal weight-loss journey on television, I can help others confront the truth and lies behind obesity.
— Ruby Gettinger
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
— Frank Herbert
The gods lie. They lie because it's the best they can do. We reach out for their lies and we keep on living.
— Kaori Ozaki
Mortal, if there's one thing I've learned in all my years, it's this: lies are curses you place on yourself.
— Kresley Cole
I think I'm going to start charging you extra for lies. Someone needs to pay for the stain on my soul.
— Kylie Scott
One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
— Iris Murdoch
Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.
— Jennifer Crusie
It seems too easy to lie in the moment but you always have to tell more lies on top of it to cover your tracks.
— Candace Cameron
While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.
— Clifford Irving
As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Look onwards to what lies ahead.
— Lailah Gifty Akita