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A lovely young girl lies on a bed in the dark listening to a fairy tale," I said. "But she's naked and the storyteller's hands are all over her. — Glen Duncan

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

The quality of beauty lies on
how beholder values an object. — Toba Beta

Relationship built on the foundation of lies is destined to fall". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world. — Dave Pelzer

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

Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being. — Roger McDonald

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written. — Tim O'Brien

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts. — John Green

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

We've peered into the deepest parts to see beyond what lies on the surface. — Kellie Thacker

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used. — Max Brooks

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

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

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

If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies. — R.D. Laing

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

He falls on her lap and lies there quivering like a toothache — Henry Miller

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

A relationship built on lies is like a bra with no underwire. Fucking useless to me. — Mimi Strong

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path. — Mason Cooley

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

It was the sort of smile that lies on sandbanks waiting for incautious swimmers. — Terry Pratchett

As far as I'm concerned, that is the end of the matter. We have a big game against Birmingham on Saturday and that is where our focus lies. — Bryan Robson

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

My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me. — Olivia Sudjic

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

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead. — Ma Jian

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

If you say that you have never lied at all,
then you give too much trust on anybody. — Toba Beta

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies. — Stefan Molyneux

Don't drown yourself in the pool of lies; fly high on the clouds of truth. — Vinita Kinra

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

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos ... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. — John Cheever

That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones. — Jennifer Lee Carrell

It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it. — George Leonard

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

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead. — Voltaire

Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache — Chinua Achebe

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

The kiss has started something bigger between us, and the lies I'm telling Stirling will only get worse from here on in. — K.C. Finn

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

A house built on lies has a weak foundation. — Brom

Nice talk," he hears Lennie say dimly from the insane universe where God has clearly died and lies stinking on the floor of a pillaged heaven. — Stephen King

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

Forget the past... "I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead." - Philippians 3:13b — Lisa Cheater

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

It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism — Alex Salmond

Look onwards to what lies ahead. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. — Stephen Leacock

Men are like caterpillars; their potential to soar lies not on the outside, but within. — Matshona Dhliwayo