Weaklings must lie.
He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.
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.
Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.
Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?
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.
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
The lie is a condition of life.