Quotes of: Being-lied-to Keyword

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.

Donella Meadows

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Henry Adams

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Tom Brady

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

Harry Frankfurt

Yu Shu Lien: What was it? Li Mu Bai: Something I can't let go of.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Yu Shu Lien: I beg your pardon. Li Mu Bai and I aren't cowards.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Yu Shu Lien: The sword has brought Li Mu Bai as much trouble as glory.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Gandalf: Far to the east, over ranges and rivers lies a single solitary peak.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Myron Bedlock: [to Judge Sarokin] Your Honor, this case was built on a foundation of lies.

The Hurricane

The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will.

John Hoeven

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

Vaclav Havel

India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that enrich the lives of all citizens. India is not only the world's largest democracy; it is also a secular, pluralistic s...

Henry Paulson

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas A. Edison

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

Yehudi Menuhin

Lei li guardò per un lungo momento senza parlare, poi disse: "Tornate indietro". Le rosse figure esitarono. Lei fece un passo avanti e sbottò: "Oppure restate".

Alan Campbell

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

Alfred Korzybski

There are words, which should leave unspoken, and the true value of a man lies in the words the he has for not saying.

Alireza Salehi Nejad

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Alexander Pope

People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies.

Anne Perry

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

V. S. Naipaul