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An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.

Animals do not ‘give’ their life to us, as the sugar-coated lie would have it. No, we take their lives. They struggle and fight to the last breath, just as we would do if we were in their place.

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts lies in the recognition that art is power, an instrument of communion between the self and all that is important, all that is sacred.

Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.

Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves for the several centuries we need to catch our breath. What is it that enables certain flowers to resemble nubile insects, or opossums to play dead, or female fireflies to change the code of their flashes in order to attract, and then eat, males of a different species?

Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature.

An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

An infinity of forest lies dormant within the dreams on one acorn.

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

Antigun advocates have always faced an uphill battle in this country. Americans have, to begin with, a constitutional right to gun ownership. Today, half of American households exercise this right, owning a total of about 250 million guns; and over 99 percent of those households do so in a responsible manner. To fight for major restrictions on an item that plays such a valued part in the lives of so many people looks like a nearly impossible task. So if you're really committed to the effort, and you want to win, what do you do? Simple: You lie.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.

Any action coming out of unconsciousness is sin. The action may look virtuous, but it cannot be. You may create a beautiful facade, a character, a certain virtuousness; you may speak the truth, you may avoid lies; you may try to be moral, and so on and so forth. But if all this is coming from unconsciousness, it is all sin.

An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.

Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.

Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie.

An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.

Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

Anybody who has played sports and says they have never choked is lying to you.

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

Anybody who is an ambitious politician would never ever aspire to a Vice Presidency. And yet, people find themselves in that position, and so, therein lies the rub.

Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then you're just lying.

Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.

Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.

Anyone that says looks don't count is lying.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

Anyone that says looks don't count is lying. Of course they do. Even babies go to the attractive face. It's the way humans work.

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.

Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.

Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying.

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly as to make your politicians, even the presidential candidate, seem like a model of accuracy and rectitude. 'Be there Wednesday at nine,' the workman will tell you. It is a lie. He is humoring you. He says it to silence you, the way you tell a child you will take it to Disneyland if it will stop crying.

Anyone who tells you that American seniors are not either going to have their services cut or we're going to have to pay more is...lying about it.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.