People for the most part can smell lies.

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down.

Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.