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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
ALFRED ADLER A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
ALFRED ADLER If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless...
ALFRED ALDER History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
TOMICHAN MATHEIKAL A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a trut...
ANURAG SHOURIE A lie can only make a temporary sense. The truth is permanent and lasts forever.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
ASHLEIGH Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT If the truth shuts it's mouth,the lie will represent it for life,unless nemesis rescues it.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.
DAVID LEVITHAN I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Sometimes the truth will hurt and a lie will set you free; just as a lie will hurt and the truth wil...
ANTHONY LICCIONE It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his plac...
H.L. MENCKEN If the truth refuses to speak out,but decides to employ nemesis to catch up with the lie,then it may...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.
LEVAR BURTON Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
RICHARD J. DALEY The truth hurts but a lie will eventually as well
RICHARD L TORRES Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.
JAMES HALL A lie is my attempt to tamper with the truth so that I need not face the truth. Yet as shrewd as I t...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were i...
H. L. MENCKEN It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were i...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
SAMUEL BUTLER Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
SAMUEL BUTLER Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
SAMUEL BUTLER Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate.
KATHLEEN NORRIS Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate
KATHLEEN NORRIS “The perfect lie must have a pinch of truth.”
KEGGAH CORNER As a lie can be buried, the truth will always bloom.
ANTHONY LICCIONE That means a company could have a 'No Women' or 'No African-Americans' hiring policy, and that would...
DEBRA NESS No lie's in the truth but sometimes there can be truth in a lie. No man's the same but the pain they...
ONEE'SHA FORD If I lie about the truth which you will know somehow later,
then you would tell me a liar.
If you di...
TOBA BETA I was in Catholic school where you were taught not to lie, ... It's hard to believe a young child at...
GARY WOLF I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
MARK TWAIN No matter how fast a lie is, the truth will catch up with her.
DUTCH PROVERB there is always a reason for a lie, but no reason for truth....
RAHUL JAISWAL Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
OLIVER HERFORD She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had t...
MARGARET WAY When you manipulate the truth, it is no long the truth. There is no such thing as a half truth or an...
BOBBY W. MILLER If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill.
If ...
J.K. ROWLING It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.
SUZY KASSEM It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
UNKNOWN Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
OLIVER HERFORD I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.
KEN GIRE There were a hundred shades between a truth and lie, and she knew them all.
V.E. SCHWAB Without a period of deception, the truth would have no value.
ERIC TOWE II One who lies, is only hiding the coward within.
RANDY HINES I didn't care for humans at 16 and it hasn't gotten any better. They say one thing and do another. I...
BOBBY W. MILLER A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters,...
MARK TWAIN There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
WILLIAM JAMES The promise of peace is a lie.
ROBERT ADAMS Saying that you never lie, is a lie.
ROBERT ADAMS I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER Hiding the truth is as evil as feeding
the lie grow tough muscles.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can b...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN By believing a lie you make the lie a truth for you.
JAIME CONTRERAS No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb unless the lamb is inside.
D.H. LAWRENCE Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised....
TERRY EAGLETON No one’s life ever goes as they planned. That truth alone should bring a sense of relief to everyo...
ANDRENA SAWYER They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Life's irony;The truth lovehate the lie because, the lie makes it exist & also makes it temporarily ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's Irony;The truth lovehates the lie because,the lie makes it exist & also makes it to temporari...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) All's fair in love and war-what a contemptible lie! Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A
ROBERT HEINLEIN You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The real moon,if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like an...
C.S. LEWIS The best Theory is everything we as a community have been taught without seeking the truth in knowle...
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. Some people lie and never tell the truth so won't hurt the person they love.
Some people lie and the...
VANDA M We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it i...
ALISON LURIE I was planning on running in the Big Cap, but he got that virus. Missing a work, it would have been ...
BEAU GREELY Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm ...
JOYCE GIRAUD I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, th...
RIVER PHOENIX In the lie of truth lies the truth.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking o...
SUSAN SONTAG Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or...
NORTON JUSTER A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
F. SAGAN Telling the truth and making someone cry is just as bad as telling a lie and making someone smile!
UNKNOWN to seek the truth, you
must lie to a liar,
& if they believe in your lie,
they will tell you the tru...
DAVID J. MARTINEZ I had a period of thinking that I would have been called 'Newt the McPherson,' as in 'Ro...
NEWT GINGRICH I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me c...
LEO TOLSTOY A lie travels farther than the truth.
IRISH PROVERB Cathy's lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility...
JOHN STEINBECK Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.
KATHRYN L. NELSON The Internet is the most dangerous parking lot imaginable. But if you were crossing a mall parking l...
JAMES COMEY A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
F. SAGAN The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.
SCOTT WESTERFELD Without law,there will be no sin,without the rich,there wil be no the poor & without truth,there wil...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I have found that liars in the end communicate more truth than do truth tellers.” “How’s that?...
DOUGLAS PRESTON If adventurers were cowardly, no one would have crossed the nations; if sailors were fearful, no one...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Half the truth is often a great lie.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
LENIN A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
VLADIMIR LENIN Expression is the truth, impression is a lie.
KRISHNA SAGAR As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
PAUL HAWKEN As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
PAUL KEATING We felt that Robert had to have qualities that Jeffrey and Elaine hadn't encountered before. Not jus...
CRAIG LUCAS Cole Sear: Some magic's real.
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JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoi...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who di...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material p...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, th...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.
EVAN G. GALBRAITH The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence ...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who ass...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH In many ways the effect of the crash on embezzlement was more significant than on suicide. To the ec...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidit...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Among all the world's races ... Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not a conseq...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
ROBERT BENCHLEY In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. A...
ROBERT ZEMECKIS A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins...
ROBERT FROST Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you r...
ROBERT WINSTON I was always handsome under all the fat.
ROBERT ILER In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into d...
ROBERT HASS Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over ti...
ROBERT HERJAVEC Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, missio...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to ...
ROBERT POZEN The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations th...
ROBERT SMITHSON I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the ...
ROBERT KNEPPER Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the per...
ROBERT HALF In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the condit...
ROBERT KENNEDY I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, basebal...
ROBERT KENNEDY Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of conte...
ROBERT KENNEDY Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'
ROBERT KENNEDY I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnso...
ROBERT KENNEDY It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the t...
ROBERT KENNEDY Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty,...
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