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Sunday, May 5th, 2024
the <>Sixth Sunday after Easter
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Lying'

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I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
Spiro T. Agnew, American Politician (1918-1996)
Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
Tim Allen, American Comedian (1953-  )
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
Woody Allen, American Director (1935-  )
Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Woody Allen, American Director (1935-  )
It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.
Sparky Anderson, American Coach (1934-2010)
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Hannah Arendt, German Historian (1906-1975)
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
Hannah Arendt, German Historian (1906-1975)
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.
Will Arnett, Canadian Actor (1970-  )
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Revolutionary (1814-1876)
If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie.
Paul Begala, American Journalist (1961-  )
They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying.
Cool Papa Bell, American Athlete (1903-1991)
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley, American Comedian (1889-1945)
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley, American Comedian (1889-1945)
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
Walter Benjamin, German Critic (1892-1940)
There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.
Jeffrey Bernard, British Journalist (1932-1997)
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist (1842-  )
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Josh Billings, American Comedian (1818-1885)
I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
Bjork, Icelandic Musician (1965-  )
With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.
James Bovard, Author
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