Don't Lie Quotes - Page 2

• Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Lying, Don't Lie, Whole

  "'Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia' ('The Art of Worldly Wisdom')". Book by Baltasar Gracián, Maxim 181, 1647.

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• I don't lie; I improve on my life.

  Edith Piaf

  Lying, Don't Lie, I Don't Lie

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• John Lennon brought his wife Cynthia, a nice blonde girl and she was horribly put out of sight and stayed home. I know it broke John's heart John wasn't happy about it and she was-- because we spoke on the plane. I photographed her and them on the plane coming over. And you know photographs don't lie. They tried putting on a black wig on her for a couple of days and that was the sad part that kept quiet because they wanted them to be like, you know, fresh- which they were

  Harry Benson

  Girl, Couple, Nice

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• I go to bed is around 11, and I do that for every race. I get good sleep. I don't lie awake for any race. That's my routine.

  Mario Andretti

  Lying, Sleep, Race

  "The Mario Andretti Indy 500 Interview: Part II". Interview with Steven Capwell, www.littlepocketguide.com.

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• Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.

  John Green

  Being Yourself, Teenager, Lying

  "Crash Course in Community Building and Content Creation". Interview with Heike Young, www.marketingcloud.com. October 6, 2014.

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• This Book had to be written by one of three people: good men, bad men or God. It couldn't have been written by good men because they said it was inspired by the revelation of God. Good men don't lie and deceive. It couldn't have been written by bad men because bad men would not write something that would condemn themselves. It leaves only one conclusion. It was given by divine inspiration of God.

  John Wesley

  Bible, Lying, Book

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• Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.

  Robert Breault

  Lying, Politics, Stealing

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• Numbers don't lie. You always seem to remember your workouts as being a little better than they were. It's good to go back and review what you do.

  Frank Shorter

  Workout, Lying, Numbers

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• I think, for some children, your skills don't lie in written words. A lot of school is based around written words and how good you are at spelling or reading. From a young age, if you're told you can't spell or read very well, you're made to feel a bit stupid.

  Erin Richards

  Children, Lying, Stupid

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• Clean plates don't lie.

  Dan Barber

  Lying, Clean, Don't Lie

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• Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.

  George W. Buck

  Lying, People, Statistics

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• One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Lying, Principles, Journalism

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I urge people to get in touch with how you really feel, and don't lie to yourself. Absolutely don't. You may not necessarily be able to change something right now, but you need to know how you really feel.

  Deborah King

  Lying, People, Needs

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• My own view is simply that there are some very basic rules; very simple rules that apply to all writing in a way, which is: don't lie; if you're wrong, correct; do not misrepresent; and try and keep oneself intellectually honest - which means, as a writer, the very difficult task in public of admitting you were wrong.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Lying, Mean, Writing

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Dyson's Law: Do ask; don't lie.

  Esther Dyson

  Lying, Law, Don't Lie

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• It sounds very pretentious, but I don't lie. It's too uncomfortable. A lot of people think because you're an actor that makes you a good liar, but one of the things I can't articulate is a bad lie.

  Martin Shaw

  Liars, Lying, Thinking

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I don't lie. I would never stuff my bra because it's going to come off and the truth is going to be revealed. I don't like that padding. I try to be completely - if not brutally - honest.

  Diane Lane

  Lying, Trying, Stuff

  "Gorgeous At Any Age". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 31, 2008.

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• I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.

  Christian Kane

  Country, Lying, People

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• You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.

  Brian Wilson

  Song, Lying, Expression

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• Everybody's trusting in the heart like the heart don't lie...

  Rob Thomas

  Lying, Heart, Don't Lie

  "Song: All I Need (More Than You Think You Are)". March 2, 2004.

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• I love it when mothers get so mad they can't remember your name. "Come here, Roy, er, Rupert, er, Rutabaga... what is your name, boy? And don't lie to me, because you live here, and I'll find out who you are."

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Mother, Lying

  "Bill Cosby: Himself". www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• Far more people die in the developing world than in the West. At religious festivals mainly. That's not a myth - the numbers don't lie. I think it's just because in the West crowds tend to be manufactured by commercial interesting, and they have, or at least should have, a responsibility for keeping people safe.

  John Seabrook

  Religious, Lying, Responsibility

  "Ask the Author Live: John Seabrook on Crowds". live chat, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2011.

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• Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Lying, Giving, Painful

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• Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Character, Veins

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1612, Delphi Classics

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• I'm praying for Barack Obama to stay on the tightrope because I want to fight his right-wing critics. I want to down I want to ensure they don't lie about him. I'm sure they don't demonize him, and too much of that is going on. So I don't want my critiques to be in any way confused with the right-wing critiques, even though I'll fight for the right wing to be wrong in that regard.

  Cornel West

  Lying, Confused, Fighting

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