L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.”
Source: Fall On Your Knees
“Lies make for pathetic allies.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Lies may glitter momentarily, but truth shines eternally.”
Source: Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free
“Lies move fast because they have an expiry date. All items that are about to expire sell fast and for a cheap price. In contrast, the truth remains fixed because it knows its existence is forever. Most importantly, the truth is priceless.”
“Lies, my dear boy, can easily be recognized. There are two kind of them: those with short legs, and those with long noses. Your kind have long noses.”
Source: Pinocchio
“Lies only color the world black.”
“Lies or Falsehood = NO Trust = NO Relation Anyway.
Maths are Exact.”
“Lies proliferate the truth as salt evaporates water.”
“Lies quit when they are tired; truth quits when it has won.”
“Lies require commitment.”
“Lies require noise and misdirection to blend in, silence is the best way to draw the truth to the surface.”
Source: Necessary People
“Lies rob us of our trust and we project our untrustworthiness onto everyone around us. Have you ever noticed that the innocent are very trusting? They neither lie nor hold other people’s lies against them. Liars, on the other hand, see sabotage everywhere.”
Source: Waldmeer
“Lies run fast, truth walks on crutches.”
Source: You Came Like Hope
“Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.”
“Lies save trouble now, but may return in thunder and lightning.”
“Lies, secrets, silences make a writer.”
“Lies, she noted, took energy. They weighed a lot. She had to think about everything she said and did now to support the lie. It sat there in her head, giving off vibes.
“Lies were radioactive.”
Source: Nine Liars
“Lies should be simple like the truth. Excessive detail was simply excessive.”
“Lies, so often misleading and which form the substance of all conversations, are less effective in covering up a feeling of dislike or of self-interest, or a visit one would rather people did not know about, or a one-day fling one wants to conceal from one's wife - than a good reputation is in utterly overshadowing disreputable habits.”
Source: The Captive / The Fugitive
“Lies so viel wie du kannst – Wissen ist das wichtigste Gepäck um durchs Leben zu gehen und es wiegt nichts.”
Source: Im Ereignishorizont: Gedichte
“Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.”
“Lies spread quicker than truth because they have longer legs.”
“Lies spread wide and fast. Meanwhile, the truth remains patient until it reveals itself. It hates being in the dark. It also remembers the details vividly.”
“Lies surround me. They are the strangers that linger under the façade of a soft whispered kiss. Ever so lovingly muddled in a single breath, fleeting, yet cemented in the heart. It is difficult to ignore them. They exist everywhere in all shapes and emotions. They drive our world, and our thoughts.”
“Lies that cause survivors to deny or recent abuse memories and experiences
⸱ The alters who are designated to live in the "real world,” going to school or college and holding jobs while interacting with others in adulthood, are trained, usually at home by parents, to disbelieve any memories that might come up.
⸱͏ Children are taught to believe that they got the idea that they were abused from something they read or saw on television or from someone else’s experience or from a therapist. (This is a basic argument of those who attempt to discredit these experiences in the public eye and among professionals.)
⸱ Children are also taught that if they experience flashbacks of awful abuses, those must be dreams or imagination or signs that they are crazy. Nothing bad really happened to them”
Source: Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
“Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.”
“Lies to induce suicide
• Children are told that it is honorable to die for the cause of the abusers (common with “soldiers” or religious alters).
• Children are told that since the group knows what survivors have said and done, traitors must kill themselves quickly before the group finds them and kills them slowly and painfully. (Note the theme of double binds.)
• Children are told that their lives will always be so unbearable that it is better to die
• Certain alters are told that if they kill the body when it is traitorous, they will be rewarded in the afterlife. (This is similar to the belief of extreme Islamic suicide bombers.)
• Demon or alien or ghost alters are told that they can kill the body without themselves dying, or that their special powers will bring them back to life
• One of the ways that organized abusive groups guarantee secrecy is to train alters to commit”
Source: Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
“lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.”
“Lies turn illusions into reality.”
“Lies + Ulterior Motives = Hypocrisy.”
“Lies unlikely truths have no boundaries limiting them.”
Source: Life’s Events In Focus
“Lies upon lies. Once you started lying, you had to continue, and then it was like being captain of a leaky ship, always plugging holes in the side to stop yourself sinking.”
Source: The Ickabog
“Lies were a mask I wore to protect my thoughts and feelings, while secrets were usually the playground my lies played in. Without them, I felt raw and exposed. I had nowhere to hide.”
Source: Secret Life of a Hollywood Sex & Love Addict: A Novel
“Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.”
Source: Little Face: Culver Valley Crime
“Lies were like acid, corrosive: They could dissolve trust in a heartbeat.”
Source: Nightlife
“Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.”
“Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.”
“Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.”
Source: Silence
“Lies were sweet. Why was the truth always so bitter?”
Source: Galacticide
“Lies will cost the truth its happiness.”
“Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.”
Source: A Room of One's Own (Annotated)
“Lies will forever cover our footprints with mistrust.”
“Lies with their face on, that’s what promises are. But they can wear as much concealer as they like: it won’t last them through the rain.”
Source: As the moon began to rust
“Lies with their face on, that’s what promises are. But they can wear as much concealer as they like: it won’t last through the rain.
~ As the moon began to rust”
“Lies wither on the vine of truth.”
“Lies would not exist except for the fact that the truth does.”
“Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.”
“Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys!”
“Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.”
“Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.”
Source: Quicksand & Passing