This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.
Joni Mitchell

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
Titus Maccius Plautus

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
Emile M. Cioran

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.
Whitney Houston

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
Harrison Ford

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
Henry Ellis

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Publilius Syrus

Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.
Timothy Geithner

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
James Callaghan

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
Paracelsus

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
Shakira

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
Jeremy Taylor

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
Tom Wolfe

When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it.
Whoopi Goldberg

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
James Agee

I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.
John Kendrick Bangs

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.
Willem Dafoe

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
Arnold J. Toynbee

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
Bo Bennett