Quotes with lie-detector

Quotes 141 till 160 of 247.

  • Benazir Bhutto Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Bob Monkhouse People always say: You're a comedian, tell us a joke. They don't say: You're an MP, tell us a lie.
    Independent on Sunday obituary
    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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  • Carl Sandburg 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
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Lord George Byron Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Punching your weight is one of boxing's most sensible rules. It's a handy one to abide by whether your battles lie in or out of a ring.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Sir John Lubbock Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Barbara Kruger Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Boyd Rice Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.
    Boyd Rice
    American musician (1956 - )
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  • Remy de Gourmont Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Virginia Woolf Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Charles M. Schultz Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
    Charles M. Schultz
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
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  • Charles M. Schulz Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.
    Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.
    Charles M. Schulz
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
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  • Arthur Koestler Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Bill Hicks Speaking of Satan, I was watching Rush Limbaugh the other day. Doesn't Rush Limbaugh remind you of one of those gay guys that like to lie in a tub while other guys pee on him?
    Filling Up the Hump
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Abraham Cowley Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • John Milton Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • James A. Froude Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • John Gay Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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