Quotes of: White-lies Keyword

[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?

The Book of Flights

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

The Brothers Karamazov

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

Nick Cannon

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

Joe Namath

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

Bernard Tschumi

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

Harold Rosenberg

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Mel Gibson

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

Odilon Redon

You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it.

Authorpreneur in Pajamas

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

Interview with the Vampire

Where excess lies, usually someone had to give something up for the other to get it.

Rise of the Morningstar

With me: one minus one = one; with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference.

The Shape

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

Middlesex

The only lies that are true are the ones that you believe.

My War: Killing Time in Iraq

I lied. I need your help." "Who are we killing?" "Do you have a pen?

Magic Strikes

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Letters to a Young Contrarian

Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.

LIFE

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

Liberty and the news

A law of life: at the precise instant when someone tells a truth, that truth is transformed into a story

Lies: A novel

Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

Moon Called