Quotes of: Being-lied-to Keyword

We're going to be okay." Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it was true even when all the facts said otherwise.

United We Spy

Just give me a chance. I know I'm not your first, and I'll somehow try to deal if I'm not your last. Just give me the honor of being able to say I shared part of my life and my heart with you. Just...leap.

Where Hope Lies

Baby, I was in a war. Of course I get it. That's where all the bad in the world comes from. Guys who like being mean. I was that guy once. We were all that guy, for at least a minute. We had to be.

What I Saw and How I Lied

But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a rec...

Terence McKenna

All sorts of other lies are being spread today, I do not know what else they will invent. I've heard that I'm of Jewish descent, but I found, I knew of my ancestors in Zagorje from around 350 years ago, and I said, maybe it would be good to have some...

Franjo Tudjman

Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I'll be allowing something imm...

Jonathan Edwards

…When you’ve know me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.” “Even the lies?” “Especially the lies. Lord Petyr…

A Clash of Kings

...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.

The Dark Half

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

Handle with Care

Sex doesn't sell anything other than itself

Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy and the New Science of Desire

90 percent of all Gillette shavers are bought by women for the men in their lives

Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy and the New Science of Desire

However, if we don’t confront the seed of lies, it gives place for them to take root in us and we become bound to the “prison cell” that those lies create.

Break Free

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

Monstrous Regiment

That sounds dangerous,'said Jean. 'For anyone else, maybe.For Gentlemen Bastards,we,it;s just what we do.' 'We?' 'We.

The Lies of Locke Lamora

Gentlemen Bastards." hissed Locke, "do not abandon one another, and we do not run when we owe vengeance.

The Lies of Locke Lamora

The unconditional love of God leads to a life of freedom and transforms each day into a potentially wild adventure.

Sex, Lies & Religion

It’s amazing, the lies you can tell yourself. Even more amazing, the lies you can believe when you’re desperate enough.

Undone

When Pisces go to war, there’s never a shortage of broken hearts.

White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story

What simple and ordinary lives we live, underneath the shadows of projection screen artists

White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love