Lying Quotes (page 101)

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• war
• education
• poor people

We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill, and lie to make money. They throw poor people out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars for profit, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U.S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women. They... Chris Hedges

• greatness
• great
• chance

Now then is my chance to find out what is of great importance, and Imust be careful, and tell no lies. Virginia Woolf

• lies
• truths
• truthful

Memoirs lie, but fiction tells the truth. Philip Roth

• work
• life
• bed

Only soldiers and labouring men can appreciate how glorious it really is to lie late in bed in winter-time. When your life revolves around having to to be at work at seven o'clock in the morning you know everything about that ghastly lep up still half asleep and the rush to put your head under a tap of ice-cold water with the barbarous object of shocking yourself awake. Maurice Chevalier

• lies
• experience
• true

The true worth of a researcher lies in pursuing what he did not seek in his experiment as well as what he sought. Claude Bernard

• life
• lies
• faith

Salvation does not lie in the rituals and profession of faith, but in a lucid understanding of the meaning of one’s life. Leo Tolstoy

• words
• love
• time

I love him, his shoulders, his angular, stooping figure? and at the same time I see behind him woods and stars, and a clear voice utters words that bring me peace, to me, a soldier in big boots, belt, and a knapsack, taking the road that lies before him under the high heaven, quickly forgetting and seldom sorrowful, for ever pressing on under the wide night sky. Erich Maria Remarque

• tomorrow
• waves
• life

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. Sylvia Plath

• culture
• manly
• dog

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king. Robert E. Howard

• lies
• sympathy
• imagination

A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy. Agatha Christie

• political
• lies
• time

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. Albert Camus

• lies
• reading
• men

All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page... Raymond Chandler

• lies
• liars
• people

That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it. Laurell K. Hamilton

• time
• lies
• liars

Listen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I For you a liar am a thousand times . . . . John Berryman

• time
• lies
• die

Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes. Jim Morrison