Quotes by Lying because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie. Alan Paton starsjourneylying You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?' Alan Rickman nicelyingthinking It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth. Alan Rudolph acceptinglying Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately. Alan Sugar tryinglyingworld Nobody can honestly say that they never lie. Alan Sugar never-liehonestlylying I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan Alan Turing menbelievelying The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is. Alan Watts babybelievelying The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the I out of the experience... Alan Watts painreallying There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion. Alan Watts eyeinspiringlying Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent. Alan Watts truthheartlying I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek. Alan Watts plotgameslying To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else. Alanis Morissette philosophylying Freedom lies at the heart of my willingness to lose everything Alanis Morissette losesheartlying I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart. Alasdair Gray speechheartlying At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given. Alasdair MacIntyre foundationlyingthinking I never met David Kelly, but I knew from what he told other people that this was not his view. The BBC were saying that Tony Blair was making up lies so that he could send young men and women to war, maybe to die. I think that if the BBC had done their jobs professionally, they'd have realised that you couldn't justify what they said. And nothing has emerged since to justify that report. Alastair Campbell jobswarlying It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri. Alastair Reynolds ancienttechniquelying 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. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests. Albert Camus menlyingyears Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. Albert Camus gratitudelifelying Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. Albert Camus telling-the-truthlyingfiction«89101112131415161718»
