I'm not going to lie to you: I'd prefer not to go to the gym and not to run.
The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.
Competitive feeling means you want do do good work. You can't lie about wanting to be on top. There is no reason for me to be insecure at this time. I would be insecure if I was sitting at home doing nothing, but I am in films now, and that's where I always wanted to be.
I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.
While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.
I was at a party New Year's Eve, and - no lie - at least 10 different people came up to me. One guy was like, 'I lost 30 pounds because of you.' So people just coming up to me. I don't know these people - random people.
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
I was reluctant to be critical of the United States because I thought the United States could do no wrong; that the government could not lie to its people.
I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
I can't lie, I did a lot of really, really stupid things, and it was because it was my way of crying for help.
The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
I know where my priorities lie.
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
You can't be the dad who takes your kid out after your wife has said, 'No ice cream,' buys the ice cream, and says, 'Don't tell your mother.' You teach the child to lie - and to disrespect the other parent.
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
Putin does not lie. When he says something, he means it.
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.
The painful truth may be that Zimbabwe, the youngest of Africa's former colonies, has simply followed where the continent has led, treading the well-worn path beaten out of the lie that taking power from the colonialists and delivering democracy to the people are one and the same.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.
I refuse to lie to children.
A lie never lives to be old.
Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
