My eyes in tearsHeart never sighsMy mind never fearsI conquer the lies

You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it’s a catch-22: all of those things that you’re willing to lose are...

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures.

98% of the things said by a drunk man are true; 98% of those said by a horny man aren’t.

Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?Maybe the lies are all that we’ve gotBut aren’t they beautiful?

[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen.

A truth that’s told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.

I tell lies somewhere else, but not here, not in front of myself.

I feel like people are so accustomed to comfort…now in days the truth to things is uncomfortable, so people avoid it. & sugarcoat things into a lie.. Sometimes the truth may be insensitive but I...

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

…but I’d learned a long time ago that the worse things are, the more people lie about them.

‘So you’re always honest,’ I said. ‘Aren’t you?’ ‘No,’ I told him. ‘I’m not.’ ‘Well, that’s good to know, I guess.’ ‘I’m not saying I’m a liar,’ I told him. He raised his eyebrows. ‘That’s...

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.

So your theory would seem to be that lying to yourself is no lie at all because you haven’t deceived any third party. And if you then convince yourself of those lies, you’ll believe them...

Live, but do not love, because love is simply a lie, only heartache waits in its wake.

When all is done, you must look in your own heart to know the truth. It lies at some middle depth, half-truths above, half-truths below. Even my truth, what I tell you know, is colored...

Christians don’t tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

Lies.” Excerpt from “Lies

How do I know you’re not crazy?” she asks. “How do I know you’re not the craziest dude I’ve ever met?” “You’ll have to test me out.” “You have my info,” she says. “I’ll think...

Well we’re waiting here in Allentown,For the Pennsylvania we never found,For the promises our teachers gave,If we worked hard,If we behaved…So the graduations hang on the wall,But they never really helped us at all,No they...

When there is nothing to say about a book; we end up saying “Beautiful Story”.

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

People should get their information from the source with facts before sharing it. Rumors can be lots of different opinions, based on what other people think. This is where lies begin to build and develop...

The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday...

This is the only way that you can hope to survive. Because life… is not a movie. Everyone lies. Good guys lose. And love… does not conquer all.

The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

The greatest lie of the greatest evil is that it doesn’t exist.

One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

Truth is for life; lies are for entertainment.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

I know it’s a lot. But she can handle it. I’d rather ruin her with the truth than ruin her with lies.

For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that...

I suggest to wash tongues and heads with soap for some people. But I’m not sure that it would help; so you should just try to THINK.

Lack of courtesy is an extreme form of disrespect

Impact of telling a lie: The day it is spoken to the day it is caught.

Ophelia was surprised by how easily she lied. She had two stolen keys in her pocket, and the lies were sliding off her tongue. Soon, she’d probably be shoplifting. She expected that was how it...

I love you. You’re the only one.” She isn’t the first woman he’s ever said that to. He shouldn’t have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn’t have treated it like...

Loving you has been worse than an addiction to drugs. At least I don’t have the drugs c r a w l i n g into my bed at night.

Snakes hide in grass, people behind their lies.

[From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex’]Beauvoir herself was as devout an atheist as she had once been a Catholic, and she dismisses...

Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to...

Why, these men would destroy the Bible on evidence that would not convict a habitual criminal of a misdemeanor. They found a tooth in a sand pit in Nebraska with no other bones about it,...

I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don’t kid yourself that they are.

Seeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring in the attic of my memory. Eventually, I was able to recall how...

I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.