If you lie and then tell the truth, the truth will be considered a lie.
No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.
The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, ma...
You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.
Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.
If you lie upon roses when you're young, you'll lie upon thorns when you're old.
Billy Costigan: Do you lie? Madolyn: Why? Do you? Billy Costigan: No, I'm asking if you lie. Madolyn: Honesty is not synonymous with truth. Billy Costigan: Yeah, you lie. You lie.
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?
There goes the girl with the wings," they say. "The damned dreamer with her eyes shut to the world." "There goes the misguided soul with her heart buried in the ground." They taunt. They lie. They lie. THEY LIE. I don't pretend to understand life. TH...
Love, he thinks, is a lie that people tell each other in order to make the world bearable. He is not up for the lie anymore. And nobody is going to lie to him like that, anyway. He's not even worth a lie.
If you want to make a lie believable, you gotta weave it with the truth.” My brows furrow, confused by the comment. “What?” “Two truths and a lie, babe,” he says. “Makes the lie harder to pick up on.
Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.
You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees.
A brick could be used to ascertain the truth. And then logically, a non-brick could be used to detect the lie. What kind of things are non-bricks? Well, anything from blankets to lies. So therefore, a lie could be used to detect a lie, and all this l...
Lie, but don't overdo it.
You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you.
We contradict all for which we stand for we all stand for the lie the whole lie and nothing but the lie so help save our lying asses.
True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.
In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold t...
When an orphan is depressed," wrote Wilbur Larch, "he is attracted to telling lies. A lie is at least a vigorous enterprise, it keeps you on your toes by making you suddenly responsible for what happens because of it. You must be alert to lie, and st...
The rope of a lie is short.
