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Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. — Orson Scott Card

It's not a lie," Shallan said, "if everyone understands and knows what it means."
"Mm. Those are some of the best lies. — Brandon Sanderson

Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know? — Bristol Palin

The greatest lie ever told is that vaccines are safe and effective. — Leonard Horowitz

I always claimed I became the Batman to fight crime. That was a lie. I did it to overcome the fear. — Jim Starlin

The soldiers lie in the grey morning. Thickets separate them. They are on manoeuvres. They are at war with their hands, their eyes, their foreheads. — Herta Muller

I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree. — George Washington

People say a lie is just a lie, but I say why deny the obvious child. — Paul Simon

Lie, illusion, deception, she said
was that it truly, the universal language we all speak? — Cynthia Ozick

To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment
are all the blackest of black lies. — Emily Post

You lie, All-father. You lie in the way that some folk breathe. — Neil Gaiman

When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie. — Avril Lavigne

There is within you a lamb and a lion. Spiritual maturity is the ability to let lamb and lion lie down together. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie. — Marcus Aurelius

I am happy, thats just the saddest lie — Kid Cudi

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future. — Aldo Leopold

The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they don't really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie. — Seanan McGuire

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. — W. H. Auden

Sometimes I lie in bed trying to decide which of my friends I truly care about, and I always come to the same conclusion: none of them. — Miranda July

Lennie said quietly, It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'. — John Steinbeck

Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord. — John Muir

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie
True Poems flee - — Emily Dickinson

I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded. — Farooq Abdullah

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie. — Jack Kerouac

Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple — Mark Rowlands

You know, it's just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead. — Kurt Busch

The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you. — Shannon L. Alder

I don't think, as an actress, you want to be beautiful. It's actually a disadvantage because that's not where all the interesting parts lie. — Tuppence Middleton

She'd buy diamond-studded earplugs and go and lie on a beach in the Caribbean where the whining of jealous bastards wouldn't reach her. — Sophie Hannah

The truth about life and lie about life is not measured by others but by your intuition, which never lies. — Santosh Kalwar

If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie. — Barry S. Strauss

What is a truth and what is a lie? Is truth the mutually accepted part of a lie, or is lie a mutually denied part of truth? — Saurabh Sharma

The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

Your attitudes lie at the heart of any possibility for changing your life. — Bryant McGill

I would like to be Jupiter, and lie down in the firmament and make love to everybody. — Roberto Benigni

The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above. — Lao-Tzu

You'd be surprised what people will believe. Usually, the bigger and the more improbable the lie, the more willing they are to believe it. — John Flanagan

Dogs are the best example of a being who doesn't need to lie to protect someone's pride. — Ammiel Josiah Monterde.

When we face with a steady eye the difficulties which lie before us, we may derive new confidence from remembering those we have already overcome. — Winston S. Churchill

Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth. — Ashleigh Brilliant

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. — A.W. Tozer

Human beings tend to be conservative,
so if you lie, you'll probably be closer to the truth. — Sonya Sones

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running. — Ljupka Cvetanova

A person doesn't know true hurt and suffering until they've felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere. — Rose Gordon

Don't look over your shoulder,
don't look in the sky
the ocean is a stranger,
the sun is a lie. — Lloyd Poast

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. — Alice James

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul. — Oscar Wilde

We lie to ourselves about the smallest details, and we lie to ourselves about our largest life choices. — Cortney S. Warren

Yep. There's a lie on the wall of my old elementary school that only my Granddaddy and me know about... And I'm okay with that. — Sean Patrick Flanery

the painter had no need for grammar.
words fell from his brushes
already knowing where to stand, sit, lie down. — Thomas Lloyd Qualls

The difference between a truth and a lie is determined when one chose to accept the other. — Anonymous

Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie. — P.D. Ouspensky

A lie, that we come from water.
The truth is we were born
from stones, dragons, the sea's
teeth, — Margaret Atwood

I have no reason to lie to you. You are the lie. — T.M. Williams

Life is Most Important in Life is The Most important Truth in Life. Any word, thought, or action that disagrees must be a lie. — David Wishengrad

When did we fall apart? or did you lie from the start? — Lesley Roy

What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie? — Martin Luther

All the answers to your questions about what your goals can and should be lie within, so does your power to accomplish those goals. — Anna Stevens

Don't lie to a liar, and Maven is the grandest liar of all. — Victoria Aveyard

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free. — Zadie Smith

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. — Bob Dylan

A model is a lie that helps you see the truth. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

To the union of all honest men. — Aaron Burr Jr.

He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie. — Mickey Mantle

The key to most difficulties does not lie in the dilemmas themselves, but in our relationship to them. — David Seabury

Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

So much relies on one person assuming the other is telling the truth. If a person can lie to you about one thing, he can lie about something else. — Meg Rosoff

Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie. — Patrick Kavanagh

When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break. — Gloria Steinem

The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead. — Robert Browning

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master. — Susanna Moodie

And, in the end, we lie awake And we dream of making our escape. — Rick Yancey

It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth. — Edward De Bono

I'd rather die holding on to the love I believe in, than to live embracing a love that's a lie. — Stephan Labossiere

I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie. — Bennie Thompson

Life is a lie if you do not find the eternal truth. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying. — David Nicholls

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty. — John Philip Sousa

You cannot weave the truth from a string of lies — Fred Munoz

A lie has forgiveness. A deceive doesn't. The difference is in lying to protect and deceiving to harm. — Eulalia Marques

But the lie had already buried itself inside of Scarlett, as lies that children are told often do. — Stephanie Garber

In the challenges of life lie the lessons of wisdom; the wise are those who have endured many challnges — Keagana 'Thuso'

There was not breaking through the lie because accepting the truth would break them. — Rick Yancey

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence. — Muriel Spark

A secret is like a bag you have to lug around all the time - each day you add another lie, and it just gets heavier and harder to carry on your own. — Dave Cousins

...it would be a lie to describe the experience as anything less than exhilarating, the repulsive going hand in hand with the wondrous. — Caitlin Doughty

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good. — Richard Steele

Demons don't play by the rules. They lie and they cheat and they stab in the back. — Alan Grant

Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn — Abbi Glines

They take little interest in waking life, choosing to lie most of the time in death-like sleep." "Then — Robert E. Howard

Animals and children tell the truth they never lie,
Which one is more human,
There's a thought now you decide — Savage Garden

Modesty, if you consider it, is the most unforgivable sort of falsehood: it's a lie that does damage to no one but yourself. — Meredith Duran

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior. — Claire LaZebnik

I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over. — Patrick Marber

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character. — Todd Rundgren

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway. — Josh Billings

The lie that started it all. — Sara Shepard

What is truth? The negation of lies? Or the statement of a fact? And if the fact is a lie, what then is the truth? — Andrzej Sapkowski

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around. — Ken Kesey

Without the door let sorrow lie,
And if for cold it hap to die,
We'll bury 't in a Christmas pie,
And evermore be merry. — George Wither