Quotes of: Lie Keyword

If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Why do you fight it?" I whisper. "Because this is wrong. I lost my head for a moment. I'd blame the alcohol but that would be a lie.

Emerald Eyes

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

Epic Fail

Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.

Encounter

He was furious with himself for having lived these last days on a wish. On a lie. A kiss does not make the future. Love alone does not make a life.

Enchanted

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

An Enemy of the People

...in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights - and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses...lie abandoned by you...

A Familiar Rain

...come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words...

A Familiar Rain

You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.

The Fault in Our Stars

It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.

The Godfather

I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

Gatsby Girls

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.

Born of Fury

You hate birthdays yet pee your pants over presents. There is clearly something wrong with you," Garrett joked.

A Beautiful Lie

That she lived a lie. That she wasn't the good girl everyone believed her to be, wanted her to be.

Bad Girl by Night

The code of the con is to know just enough about everything so you can lie about anything. (attrib: E. Tancarville)

Citations: A Brief Anthology

You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.

City of Ashes

I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn.

Penelope Cruz

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

Sela Ward

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?

An Abundance of Katherines

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory