Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Walter Benjamin

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.
Joe Rogan

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
Jeanette Winterson

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
Hilaire Belloc

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
Hilaire Belloc

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
Conor Oberst

A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.
Ariel Sharon

Don't lie if you don't have to.
Leo Szilard

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
Lawrence Durrell

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
William Feather

Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent.
Kirstie Alley

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.
Mary Wesley

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
Mason Cooley

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

My whole life has been a lie.
Bobby Darin

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitler

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
Adolf Hitler

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.
Doug Coupland

I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
Yitzhak Rabin