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Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that's what livin' is to me. — Jimmy Buffett

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

I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man. — Jim Elliot

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The Arum are nothing more than what a human would call a parasite. They are not worth the filthy floor you lie upon. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

It has become a custom among the Legions to promise one's fellows that no matter what happens, they will never lie cold upon the earth. — Jim Butcher

This is what happens when you lie. Lies grow thin and steely and hard and become bars. Bars become a cage. — Leah Raeder

myth doesn't mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. — Anonymous

Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie. — Taylor Momsen

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul. — Elia Kazan

Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart. — Billy Joel

People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened. — Carl Sandburg

What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth? — Robert Redford

It was right for his speech to be a failure, since what he had been defending was a lie. — Jean Hegland

No one waits to trap him in a lie. He is told what lies he is getting ready to tell. — Alcoholics Anonymous

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie. — Will Oldham

Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight.
Mercutio: And so did I.
Romeo: Well, what was yours?
Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. — William Shakespeare

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going. — Ashwin Sanghi

You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need. — Shannon L. Alder

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I was build with bassically upon on a code... lie... what's a lie and so on and so on!?

- So I know that you are lieing now, aren't now? — Deyth Banger

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own. — River Phoenix

I think it's a really sad situation when I have to lie to my doctor about what I need a medication for. — Liz Miller

If we don't have that, what do we have to live for? Does it matter if it's a lie if it keeps us alive? — Beth Revis

What I know?
I know that you lie too often + every strugle or move you have made is telling a lot of about you. — Deyth Banger

What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear. — Mark Twain

What is "normal"? Everyone is unique. "Normal" is just a lie. There's no such thing as "Normal — Me

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood. — Will Rogers

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out. — Stan Getz

Sometimes when the heart breaks, it doesn't know what it wants and it doesn't recognize the difference between the truth and a lie. — C.C. Hunter

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm. — Henry David Thoreau

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists. — Peter Nivio Zarlenga

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade. — Jodi Picoult

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

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie. — Robert Jordan

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. — Arthur Miller

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

I love it when people lie! Lying is only man's privilege over all other organisms. Lying is what makes me a man. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Masks camouflage the faces of both good and evil.
Keeps hidden what is a truth and what is a lie. — Patti Roberts

What if everything you have been taught is all a lie and everything you feel is all a truth? — Nikki Rowe

Then what are you like, Annabel?" he shot back. "A liar, like you told me that first day? Come on. That was the biggest lie of all. — Sarah Dessen

Think what you want about me Billie. You're the only part of my life that hasn't been a lie. — Shelby Reed

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was pinging between us, hovering above the weeds. — Sonya Hartnett

Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago. — Lenny Bruce

Nothing's forever forever's a lie. All we have is what's between hello and goodbye. — Marilyn Bergman

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway. — Christine Feehan

Gomst's mouth framed a 'no', but every other muscle in him said 'yes'. You'd think priests would be better liars, what with their jobs and all. — Mark Lawrence

When a guy says "I have no idea what you're talking about" it means "I'm thinking of exactly what you're saying I did while I lie to you." — Dane Cook

There were lies, and there were lies. Was a secret a lie? If one wanted to protect another? — Kristen Callihan

Biffy was tolerably more disturbed by the fact that he had developed a cowlick while sleeping that would to lie flat no matter what he did. — Gail Carriger

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

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit. — Gertrude Atherton

This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ? — Donna Leon

Now I have realized what the lie is. If I became a tsar, no one would ever dare to tell me a lie. I would have gotten the country under control. — Alexei Nikolaevich

There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie. — Lenny Bruce

I should know better than to lie. But a lie is what they need to carry on, and if my deceit saves even one of them, it is worth the cost to my soul. — Victoria Aveyard

Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie. — John Green

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think. — Hal Holbrook

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do. — Cristiano Ronaldo

Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie. — Terry Goodkind

I have never told a lie or modulated my natural voice ... I can't help what people think sounds male or female. — Alice Hastings Bradley

But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself. — Marilyn Manson

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack. — Simon Pegg

What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie? — Marie Corelli

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross? — Martin Luther

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is. — George McGovern

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead. — Jay Samit

Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes. — Elbert Hubbard

If a person lies to you about what's in their bank account, they'll lie to you about other things as well. — Christie Brinkley

A lie
is
simply a lie.
it draws its strength from belief.
stop believing
in
what hurts you.
- power — Nayyirah Waheed

His Chosen Ones. What a lie. They're slaves too. You jest cain't see their chains. — Moira Young

Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test. — Michael Moore

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort. — Randy Pausch

Never believe what they say; they always lie. I have a saying: Whatever they say, do the opposite, and you'll never go wrong. — Tom Upton

Numbers don't lie. You always seem to remember your workouts as being a little better than they were. It's good to go back and review what you do. — Frank Shorter

Are we willing to do for the truth what others are willing to do for a lie? — Walter Martin

I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, that's a total lie. I always think about what's in front of me. — Julianne Hough

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

Your feelings do not lie to you;
however, they may be based upon a false thought,or a true thought, or based upon incomplete information. — David W. Earle

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie! — Wendell Phillips

A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children. — Philip K. Dick

I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie. — Thornton Wilder

When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need to judge your-self. — Barry Long

But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters. — Veronica Roth

What it must feel like to lie back with cut wrists in a warm bath, a voluptuous dwindling feeling. — Michael Cisco

No one showed any signs of recognizing me. I didn't know what I'd do if they did, other than lie like a devil and pray like a saint. — Rodney Jones

Life is so simple: We walk; we sit; we lie horizontal. That's about it. Everything else is a story about what's going on while we're doing it. — Byron Katie

A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you. — Lauryn Hill

Love spills out of these people. That's what I want. Settling for anything less is a lie. — Katherine Reay

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie. — Miyamoto Musashi

A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true. — Terry Pratchett

What's the point of hope if the hope you have is a lie? said Frank. Better to have no hope at all than false hope. — Chris Priestley

This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie. — R.C. Sproul

Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right.
-Albus Dumbledore — J.K. Rowling

You've never heard the wind blow. The wind only speaks of the wind. What you heard was a lie, And the lie is in you. — Fernando Pessoa

What do you think you should do if you're attacked by a bear? Play dead? No - that's a lie promoted by the bears. — Eugene Mirman

What's the difference between a lie and a secret? — Lisa Henry

What's wrong is that every morning and every night, I lie in bed wondering why you're not beside me. — K.A. Tucker