Quotes and Sayings About Lying
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.
-- Alex Kapranos -
Jews lie as reflexively and unthinkingly as humans breathe.
-- Alex Linder -
It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism
-- Alex Salmond -
The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise.
-- Alex Sanchez -
Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.
-- Alexander Berkman -
The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believeContrary to hearsay, it is possible to make a living that way.
-- Alexander Girard -
All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.
-- Alexander H. Stephens -
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.
-- Alexander Haig -
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing, never lies for the sake of a pose, and conceals nothing out of coquetry. She stops before the facts as an investigator, sometimes as a physician, never as an executioner, and still less with hostility and irony.
-- Alexander Herzen -
The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.
-- Alexander Herzen -
Without a doubt the sense of beauty does not lie determined in the concreteness of an individual beautiful thing or person. Rather its purpose is much more the enchantment of the soul, for there is nothing physical that is not made with the intent of affecting the soul, and there is no soul that does not intend to dazzle everything physical with its sensations.
-- Alexander Lernet-Holenia -
My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.
-- Alexander Ludwig -
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
-- Alexander Pope -
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
-- Alexander Pope -
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
-- Alexander Pope -
Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
-- Alexander Pope -
In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
-- Alexander Pope -
The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
-- Alexander Pope -
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
-- Alexander Pope -
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
-- Alexander Pope -
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
-- Alexander Pope
