Quotes having the keyword Lie
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
by Simone Weil (Philosopher, French , born in 1909) keywords: any, bread, danger, doubt, hungry, itself, lest, lie, persuade, should, soul , whether When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
by Simone Weil (Philosopher, French , born in 1909) keywords: contradiction, door, except, impossible, know, lie, really, resolve , then The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.
by Theodore White (Journalist, American , born in 1915) keywords: best, corner, exhausted, late, lie, listen, night, politician, rain, street, stump, then , time These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.
by Edward Bennett Williams (Lawyer, American , born in 1920) keywords: ever, got, license, lie, new, newspaper, reporters, since, sullivan, these, times, versus , york We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
by Tad Williams (Writer, American , born in 1957) keywords: afraid, every, fear, found, grows, know, lie, lies, others, out, stronger, tell, thing, think, time, us , will 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.
by Tom Wolfe (Journalist, American , born in 1931) keywords: alone, asleep, beautiful, darkness, death, dying, heart, know, lie, naked, night, sleep, strange , united When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.
by Bob Woodward (Journalist, American , born in 1943) keywords: burglars, clear, dollars, grand, hear, horror, jury, lie, million, nixon, own, pay, recordings, saying, tape, too, voice , went An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
by Henry Wotton (Author, English , born in 1568) keywords: abroad, ambassador, benefit, country, his, honest, intrigue, lie, man , sent But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.
by Steve Wozniak (Businessman, American , born in 1950) keywords: amendment, any, company, famous, first, know, knowing, lie, newspapers, person, protected , tell I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.
by William Wyler (Director, American , born in 1902) keywords: awake, forty, getting, horse, lie, made, new, nights, off, over, think, trying, up, used, ways , westerns I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.
by Marguerite Yourcenar (Novelist, American , born in 1903) keywords: digest, easily, lie, more, never, order, sauce, seasoned , truth
