People Lie Quotes

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  People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Morning, Clever, War

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• People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

  Randy Pausch

  Lying, People, Effort

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• People lie. They use you and they lie, all the while feeding you bullshit about being loyal and never leaving you. No one can make that promise, because life is all about seasons, and seasons change.

  Tarryn Fisher

  Lying, Bullshit, People

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• The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

  Unknown

  Enemy, German History, Nazism

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• It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.

  George D. Prentice

  Lying, People, Telling The Truth

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• I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't give me a straight answer. I don't like those kinds of people, and I've been vocal about it.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Lying, Giving, People

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• Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

  Bell Hooks

  Lying, People, Would Be

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• Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Lying, People, Tears

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1808, Random House

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• People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.

  Carl Sandburg

  Lying, People, Way

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

  Emma Thompson

  Lying, Mean, Thinking

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• This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the frozen tundra of Minnesota, if your neighbor's car won't start, you put on your parka and get the jumper cables out and deliver the Sacred Spark that starts their car. Everybody knows this. The logical extension of this spirit is social welfare and the myriad government programs with long dry names all very uninteresting to you until you suddenly need one.

  Garrison Keillor

  Lying, Past, Names

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• You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Lying, People, Knows

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• People lie all the time in their divorce proceedings, especially when custody is an issue.

  Megyn Kelly

  Lying, Divorce, Issues

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it's mostly for their own good.

  Suzanne Collins

  Lying, People, Sick

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.118, Scholastic Inc.

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• I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

  Eric Carr

  Lying, People, Telling The Truth

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• The New York Times, they lie. They lie like I've never seen anything. They know they're lying. One of these guys wrote a story - Rutenberg, Jim Rutenberg, a story. Literally they'll do whatever they have to do. He practically they insinuated... they'll lie and tell whatever they have to say. These are vicious people. These are lying people, and fortunately I can defend myself.

  Donald Trump

  Lying, People, Guy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

  David Geffen

  Cheating, Lying, Player

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• Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.

  Richard Branson

  Future, Space, People

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• Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat when they are alone. A salad, they tell you. But when you persist, they confess to peanut butter and bacon sandwiches deep fried and eaten with hot sauce, or spaghetti with butter and grape jam.

  Laurie Colwin

  Lying, Men, People

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• The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.

  John C. Maxwell

  Lying, Wrestling, Successful

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• There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

  Emma Thompson

  Lying, Knowledge, Mean

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• I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.

  Steve Martin

  Lying, People, Fool

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• And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not say, and others like dead people lying on the grass. I went on among them, though they frightened me, and my heart was full of wicked song they put into it; and I wanted to make faces and twist myself about the way they did, and I went on and on a long way till at last I liked the rocks and they didn’t frighten me any more

  Arthur Machen

  Song, Lying, Heart

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• Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter the pain it causes. Mothers can turn you invisible with neglect. They can erase you with a denial, a refusal to see. Friends can deceive you. People lie. It is a cold, hard world. I do not blame Nell Hawkins for retreating from it into a madness of her own choosing.

  Libba Bray

  Mother, Hurt, Pain

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• My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky.

  Steven Spielberg

  Dad, Lying, Heart

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