Lying famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I was born and bred in Coventry. I played for the club as well, so that's where my liaisons lie.
-- Bobby Gould -
If I told you that the big contract had nothing to do with my signing, Id be lying. It made the future secure for my family.
-- Bobby Hull -
Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.
-- Bobby Jones -
The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger.
-- Bobby Jones -
I will tell you privately it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse all the time, but don't fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let's not talk about this, ever again.
-- Bobby Jones -
Homo sapiens Yuck You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty and mediocrity. Yet, when your ears come upon the truth, the facts of life, you hide your faces and cry, not able
-- Bobby Miller -
We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.
-- Bobby Sands -
So remember when you tell those little white lies that the night has a thousand eyes.
-- Bobby Vee -
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
-- Bodhidharma -
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
-- Bodhidharma -
My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it.
-- Bong Joon-ho -
It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.
-- Bonnie Blair -
A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive (the) public and to make short draws and go home. It's not true. It's a lie.
-- Boris Gelfand -
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
-- Boris Pasternak -
I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid of our society. For in these words: "Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," lie those very moral principles that will enable us to survive even the most critical situations.
-- Boris Yeltsin -
The future is too good to waste on lies. And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong.
-- Bowe Bergdahl -
I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of U.S. soldier is just the lie of fools,
-- Bowe Bergdahl -
Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.
-- Boyd Rice -
Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.
-- Boyle Roche -
If you want to be your best, spend a lot of time exploring what is more than enough. Push yourself until the bar is lying immobile across your chest. Push yourself right off the edge of your capacity.
-- Brad Alan Lewis -
But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don't line up anymore, and the lie is in that not lining up, the lie is in not being what she needs but pretending that he is. No one says a word, and she sees it every minute they have together.
-- Brad Barkley -
The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.
-- Brad Meltzer -
I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
-- Bram Stoker -
Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.
-- Brand Blanshard -
The most important element of breaking into a house is a flashlight, a flashlight will keep ya' on target. You don't wanna be stummblin' around, and it will make it alot crista-crystal-cleaner and crystal like surranwrap you S.O What?, and I'll never tell you a lie 'cause we're gonna get you through this successfully and you wanna have all the stuff were givin' ya now.
-- Brandon DiCamillo -
I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.
-- Brenda Blethyn -
I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.
-- Brenda Blethyn -
When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British.
-- Brenda Fricker -
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.
-- Brendan Coyle -
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.
-- Brendan Coyle -
Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people’s misery. They lie when it suits them and don’t see anything wrong with it. They corrupt and kill and destroy, all without conscience. You just don’t have the capacity for something as honorable as loving another person.
-- Brenna Yovanoff -
The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us.
-- Brennan Manning -
The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.
-- Brennan Manning -
For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.
-- Brennan Manning -
The beauty of the ragamuffin gospel lies in the insight it offers into Jesus: the essential tenderness of His heart, His way of looking at the world, His mode of relating to you and me. 'If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says, but watch what he does.
-- Brennan Manning -
The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The vitality of the faith is being jeopardized. The lying slogans of the fixers who carry religion like a sword of judgment pile up with impunity. Let ragamuffins everywhere gather as a confessing Church to cry out in protest. Revoke the licenses of religious leaders who falsify the idea of God. Sentence them to three years in solitude with the Bible as their only companion.
-- Brennan Manning -
If in our hearts we really don't believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.
-- Brennan Manning -
We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.
-- Brent Scowcroft -
Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it's a lie.
-- Brent Weeks -
But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voce of children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage.
-- Bret Harte -
The secret to #success lies in the gap between dream and reality.
-- Bret Michaels -
Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry weekend. Of course, some might say, 'you've made your own bed - now you must lie in it!' But, while fully accepting that dictum, I'm not yet quite prepared to lie down...
-- Brian Aldiss -
The camera lies all the time -- lies 24 times/second.
-- Brian De Palma -
I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
-- Brian Eno -
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
-- Brian Eno -
It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.
-- Brian Helgeland -
All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
-- Brian K. Vaughan -
Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.
-- Brian Tracy -
Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.
-- Brian Tracy -
If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.
-- Brigham Young -
Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?
-- Bristol Palin -
I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.
-- Brittany Murphy -
Nobody told me you were cheating, it's just a feeling I had. So if I'm right, you got to lie to me, then I won't feel so bad.
-- Brook Benton -
Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.
-- Bruce Campbell -
The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.
-- Bruce Coville -
When you break up the individuals from a community into individual units, they become disempowered because it's the collective consciousness and the collective energy of the group from which power comes. The principal driving force that lies before us is that we have to recognize the nature of community as the evolutionary step that we just took a step backwards from in the last century.
-- Bruce H. Lipton -
The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.
-- Bruce H. Lipton -
Made my bed and here I lie, try to hold my head up high. Lying to myself sometimes, bad decisions but I, I won't cry.
-- Bruce Hornsby -
Bruce lives a lie. She is not a lie. I can't do it anymore.
-- Bruce Jenner -
If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.
-- Bruce Lee -
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
-- Bruce Lee -
The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.
-- Bruce Lee -
I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.
-- Bruce Lee -
In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.
-- Bruce Lee -
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
-- Bruce Lee -
There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way.
-- Bruce Lee -
To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. Now, it is very difficult to do. It has always been very easy for me to put on a show and be cocky, and be flooded with a cocky feeling and feel pretty cool and all that. I can make all kinds of phoney things. Blinded by it. Or I can show some really fancy movement. But to experience oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express myself honestly, now that is very hard to do.
-- Bruce Lee -
To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time , for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don't stop and interpret "I am free," then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before.
-- Bruce Lee -
It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky..but to express oneself honestly not lying to oneself, now that my friend is very hard to do
-- Bruce Lee -
The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.
-- Bruce Lee -
I stand before the Church this day and raise the warning voice. ... It is a voice calling upon the Lords people to prepare for the troubles and desolations which are about to be poured out upon the world without measure. For the moment we live in a day of peace and prosperity but it shall not ever be thus. Great trials lie ahead. All of the sorrows and perils of the past are but a foretaste of what is yet to be. And we must prepare ourselves temporally and spiritually.
-- Bruce R. McConkie -
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?
-- Bruce Springsteen -
Music springs from and is replenished by a hidden source which lies outside the world or reality. Music ever spoke to me of a mysterious world beyond, which moved my heart deeply and eloquently intimated its transcendental nature.
-- Bruno Walter -
Some actors have to make a choice. If they have the opportunity to become these huge megastars, making millions and millions of dollars and have to live a lie, that's a choice they have to make. Not that I would ever be a big star, but I just had to live my life the way I saw fit.
-- Bryan Batt -
We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.
-- Bryan Clay -
The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies.
-- Bryan Procter -
As far as I'm concerned, that is the end of the matter. We have a big game against Birmingham on Saturday and that is where our focus lies.
-- Bryan Robson -
I've come to understand and to believe that each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. I believe that for every person on the planet. I think if somebody tells a lie, they're not just a liar. I think if somebody takes something that doesn't belong to them, they're not just a thief. I think even if you kill someone, you're not just a killer. And because of that, there's this basic human dignity that must be respected by law.
-- Bryan Stevenson -
Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.
-- Bryce Courtenay -
The road may bend out of sight at times, but I know what lies ahead: the faraway horses.
-- Buck Brannaman -
A waste is a nine-year-old boy playing catch with the roof of his garage who already understands that his existence makes for the perfect insult- gay. "You're so gay" a.k.a. stupid a.k.a. dumb a.k.a. wrong. Do you have any idea how gross it feels to hide inside the pile of lies it takes to make you, Sweet Angel, comfortable?
-- Buddy Wakefield -
First time I saw an alligator gar I damn near threw up. They ain't natural anything get that big. It's ten feet long and three feet at the girth. Not one of God's creations like you and meSome say they ain't afraid of alligator gar fish. Bullshit. You look at that thing. It's big and mean. Swallow both of us. Them people say they ain't afraid tellin' lies.
-- Bukka White -
My study is NOT as a climatologist, but from a completely different perspective in which I am an expert … For decades, as a professional experimental test engineer, I have analyzed experimental data and watched others massage and present data. I became a cynic; My conclusion - 'if someone is aggressively selling a technical product who's merits are dependent on complex experimental data, he is likely lying'. That is true whether the product is an airplane or a Carbon Credit.
-- Burt Rutan -
I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.
-- Busy Philipps -
Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.
-- Byron Katie -
The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers
-- C. K. Prahalad -
Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.
-- C. S. Lewis -
A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.
-- C. S. Lewis -
When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others—not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.
-- C. S. Lewis -
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
-- C. S. Lewis -
It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.
-- C. S. Lewis -
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.
-- C. S. Lewis -
But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.
-- C. S. Lewis -
and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.
-- C. S. Lewis -
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
-- C. S. Lewis
