Pastoral Resources

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever.