lie

The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask.

You have a choice," she told the class. "The whorish emptiness of lies or the straightlaced horrors of truth.

Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth.

Smell shit when one's bragging.

An extreme case of the distortion of the memory of a committed guilty act is found in its suppression. Here, too, the borderline between good and bad faith can be vague; behind the "I don't know" and "I do not remember" that one hears in courtrooms there is sometimes the precise intent to lie, but at other times it is a fossilized lie, rigidified in a formula.

It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.

There is a lie that acts like a virus within the mind of humanity. And that lie is, __here__ not enough good to go around. There__ lack and there__ limitation and there__ just not enough.__he truth is that there__ more than enough good to go around. There is more than enough creative ideas. There is more than enough power. There is more than enough love. There__ more than enough joy. All of this begins to come through a mind that is aware of its own infinite nature.There is enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can see it, if you act from it, it will show up for you. That's the truth.

It came as naturally to him as breathing or lying, or worse. His mama had only taught her son to be cautious at all times. Garnette was more than that. Much, much more than that.

How do we stop them?_ Edilio asked. He raised his head, and Sam saw the distress on his face. __ow do you think we stop them? When your fifteenth birthday rolls around, the easy thing is to take the poof. You gotta fight to resist it. We know that. So how are we going to tell kids this isn__ real, this Orsay thing?___e just tell them,_ Astrid said.__ut we don__ know if it__ real or not,_ Edilio argued.Astrid shrugged. She stared at nothing and kept her features very still. __e tell them it__ all fake. Kids hate this place, but they don__ want to die.___ow do we tell them if we don__ know?_ Edilio seemed genuinely puzzled.Howard laughed. __eely-O, Deely-O, you are such a doof sometimes._ He put his feet down and leaned toward Edilio as if sharing a secret with him. __he means: We lie. Astrid means that we lie to everyone and tell them we do know for sure.__dilio stared at Astrid like he was expecting her to deny it.__t__ for people__ own good,_ Astrid said in a low voice, still looking at nothing.__ou know what__ funny?_ Howard said, grinning. __ was pretty sure we were coming to this meeting so Astrid could rank on Sam for not telling us the whole truth. And now, it turns out we__e really here so Astrid can talk us all into becoming liars.

Political truths are like colors in the rainbow, they may be true, except like the color purple which is created in the mind, however they are not THE WHOLE TRUTH, which is like LIGHT, colorless and yet all colors, seen and unseen.

How I know that??? Or that???I'm around liars and scammers I know a lot of them.... I will only say this.

Sometimes you are damn wrong and you just don't get it.

Those who lie and cheat, but do not believe what they are doing to be wrong, may be living according to ethical standards. They may believe, for any of a number of possible reasons, that it is right to lie, cheat, steal and so on. They are not living according to conventional ethical standards, but they may be living according to some other ethical standards.

Now, it__ time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that__ gonna be torn down. Makes no sense. Like an old man tellin_ a lie to his son from his death bed. What__ the point? Who besides yourself are you fooling?

I hand him the single greatest work of fiction known to man: my resume.

I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.

The biggest mistake a person can make is to lie to an engineer about a subject that they specialize in.

He had you in his room?" A dark cloud crosses Jeb__ face. __o you swear he didn__ try anything?___cout__ honor.__e squeezes my waist, tickling me. __oo bad you were never a Scout.__ squirm and smile. __othing happened.__hat__ a lie. Morpheus got to me in a big way, showing me a side of myself I can hardly believe exists__ne I__ not sure Jeb will be able to accept.