Quotes of: Being-lied-to Keyword

It was here in Mayfair, that adjectives such as gracious elegant sophisticated and sublime trip off the tongue like coins into a parking meter.

Sex, Lies & Litigation

Bruce Lee's fast pace, Jet Li's pretty style and Jet Li's acrobatics combine with Muay Thai for my own style.

Tony Jaa

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

Jim Morrison

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

Miguel Angel Ruiz

At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will distur...

Pete Postlethwaite

Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and real...

Jim Backus

Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.

Paul Neilan

Relent not in thy effort to do, when you have to do; for in delay lies mediocrity and in giving up lies perishing; but when the grounds are not ready for landing, hover purposefully.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Greatness lies not in high or outstanding ability. It lies simply in the willingness to use what we have for others. The greater the `other people` dimension, the greater our personal `greatness`.

Chairman Mao

Javert: [about Valjean] He lies so well, doesn't he? He's had a lot of practice. A lifetime of lies.

Les Misérables

And Death it calls as the stone crow breaks. Streaks of blood malform its face. Death becomes its withered eyes and the shadows whisper, “Lies.” Excerpt from "Lies

Angela B. Chrysler

The matchmaker always asks for too much money for his eight hundred lies.

Japanese

An old man telling lies is like a rich man stealing.

Russian

It’s not that fact of him telling me he’s not going to kill me that assures me I’ve got some time to breathe. Predo could look me in the eye and tell me whiskey’s good and cigarettes are better and I’d still need a drink and a Lucky to beli...

Every Last Drop

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Malay

Li Mu Bai: You need practice. I can teach you to fight with the Green Destiny, but first you must learn to hold it in stillness. Jen Yu: Why do you want to teach me? Li Mu Bai: I've always wanted a disciple worthy of Wudan's secrets. Jen Yu: And if I...

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

Geek Love

You said you didn’t care what I thought. Or what I did. Or if I died, if I’m not mistaken." “I lied! And you know I lied, you stupid bastard!

The Assassin's Blade

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978

All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out of the grave.

Lucifer, Vol. 11: Evensong

What thief does not fight to hold what he has?" "One that has something better" - Locke Lamora to the Gray king

The Lies of Locke Lamora