I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.
People say children are charming because they tell the truth. That's a lie. I've got five of them. They only tell the truth if they're in pain.
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
Mrs. Fox: Why did you lie to me? Mr. Fox: Because I'm a wild animal.
Gandalf: All our hopes now lie with two little Hobbits, somewhere in the wilderness.
Lennie: You said I was your cousin! George: That was a lie. If I was a relative of yours, I'd shoot myself.
I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.
I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social anxieties and romantic insecurities and all that stuff.
When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.
Narrator: With a prompter in every cellar window whispering comebacks, shy people would have the last laugh.
[Lucien is efficiently serving customers at the grocery while Collignon is absent] Madeleine Wallace: Where's the owner? Lucien: Shhh! Sleeping in the cauliflower!
Jake Sully: [in unfinished scene, DVD bonus material; about the Na'vi] They didn't even have a word for 'lie'.
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast.
Rock helps me communicate directly with the people because rock doesn't lie, and people are fed up with lying politicians.
