Lying Quotes - Page 38

• People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

  Randy Pausch

  People, Effort, Want

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest concerns were the summer gnats. I wish we were hungry for hot dogs and dopes, and it would be nice to smell the starch of summer linens and the faint odor of talc in blistering summer bath houses ... We could lie in long citoneuse beams of the five o'clock sun on the plage at Juan-les-Pins and hear the sound of the drum and piano being scooped out to sea by the waves.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Summer, Dog, Nice

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• Sometimes you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about...That always worries me!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Single, Night

  "Fictional character: Charlie Brown". "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, July 6, 1985.

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• No.” He wouldn’t lie about that. Not to her. And not because she’d rip him to pieces when she discovered the truth. “I can’t give you forever.” The nibbling increased in intensity, leaving a bead of blood in the center of her mouth. “Because we’re not a good match?” Of course she would remember every insult he’d ever thrown at her. “Yes.” “Then what can you give me?” “Here. Now.” Something his body craved more with every second that passed.

  Gena Showalter

  Rip, Blood, Giving

  Gena Showalter (2011). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.114, HQN Books

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• The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.

  Megan Hart

  Hardest

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• I just can’t, Nick, okay? Now, please give me a second to lie here in silence and bleed.” – Caleb

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Giving, Silence, Caleb

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• Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

  Janette Rallison

  Believe, Fiction, Definitions

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• I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I lie motionless, savoring the feeling of her body against mine. I'm afraid to breathe in case I break the spell.

  Sara Gruen

  Feelings, Skins, Body

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• If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.

  E. Lockhart

  Philosophical, Trying, Want

  "The Boy Book". Book by E. Lockhart, 2006.

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• As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.

  Leon Trotsky

  Long, Principles, Slave

  Leon Trotsky, Slavoj Žižek, Henry Noel Brailsford (2007). “Terrorism and communism: a reply to Karl Kautsky”, Verso Books

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• There was a time when I was unable to get out of bed because my body, its muscles eating themselves away, refused to sit up. There was a time when the lies rolled off my tongue with ease, when it was far more important to me to self-destruct than to admit I had a problem, let alone allow anyone to help.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Self, Important, Bed

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• I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My love and I, we looked amazed Upon the gory mystery. "Lie down, lie down!" the people cried. "The great machine is history!" My love and I, we ran away, The engine did not find us. We ran up to a mountain top, Left history far behind us. Perhaps we should have stayed and died, But somehow we don't think so. We went to see where history'd been, And my, the dead did stink so.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, Thinking, Should Have

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.122, Dial Press

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• It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there.

  Graham Greene

  Believe, Mean, Swings

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• i swore i could feel my lies slithering inside me like snakes, wrapping themselves around me and constricting. i felt they were squeezing the air from my lungs, tightening around my heart.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Heart, Air, Snakes

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.213, Macmillan

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• But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love." "Yet I am living without love." "Then you are either living a lie or not living at all.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Living A Lie, Feels, Persons

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.25, Zed Books

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• I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. But I have buried too many friends in the too-recent past, and I have seen too many lies go unquestioned, and too many questions go unasked. There is a time when even reasonable men must begin to take unreasonable actions. To do anything else is to be less than human.

  Mira Grant

  Past, Men, Thinking

  "Deadline: The Newsflesh Trilogy".

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• Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if he was lying by me Would I lie in my bed once again.

  Bob Dylan

  Heart, Waiting, Bed

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• Ready?" Jaime echoed. "Yes, yes, I am ready. I am ready to drink a lot of liquids and lie on the sofa moaning faintly all day long. That is what I am ready for. I cannot engage in physical activity of any sort or my head will fall right off. Is that what you want Nick? Because if so, I find that hurtful.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Fall, Long, Hurtful

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• The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Hair, Wind

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Forest Born”, p.147, A&C Black

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• I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hurt, People, Confusion

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.206, Penguin

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• The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

  Chinua Achebe

  Baby, Children, Men

  Chinua Achebe (2009). “Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• With your face and your beautiful eyes and the coversations with the little white lies and the faded picture of a beautiful lie you carry me from your car up the stairs,and I broke down crying was she worth this mess? After everything and that little black dress.After everything i must confess...I need you <3'':) -Taylor Swift

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, Eye, White

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• HERE LIES BROM Who was A Rider bonded to the dragon Saphira Son of Holcomb and Nelda Beloved of Selena Father of Eragon Shadeslayer Founder of the Varden And Bane of the Forsworn. May his name live on in glory. Stydja unin mo'ranr

  Christopher Paolini

  Father, Son, Dragons

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• I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table.

  Amy Hempel

  Mean, Thinking, Cards On The Table

  Amy Hempel (2006). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• Lie rather still because this is the first time I've used this equipment.

  Steig Larsson

  Firsts, Used, Equipment

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