“You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.” PeopleShowsFeelingsLyingGirlGrowsAttitudeGrowing UpNiceToughAlternativesShyLiedRealisedUnlovedBoyishNice Feeling Author:Maj Sjowall
“Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.” IfsShowsLyingEnergyGrowthBoysEconomicKeysModelsAlternativesFuelJapanOur FutureFossilsEconomic GrowthFossil FuelPostersRenewable EnergyBurning Fossil FuelsNukes Author:David Suzuki
“A study of over 10,000 patients shows clearly that chemo's supposedly strong track record with Hodgkin's disease (lymphoma) is actually a lie. Patients who underwent chemo were 14 times more likely to develop leukemia and 6 times more likely to develop cancers of the bones, joints, and soft tissues than those patients who did not undergo chemotherapy .” ShowsLyingStrongStudyRecordsDiseasePatientTrackCancerBonesJointsTissuesTrack RecordChemotherapyLeukemia Author:John Diamond
“La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.” ShowsLightBeautifulLyingValuesObjectsMetsContraryTwilightRite Author:Albert Camus
“The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by using mass communication techniques.. .Better than handing out all kinds of wise advice, he could show life itself; he could awake forces lying dormant in everybody, he could launch an invitation to create direct and personal experiences.” PeopleKindMayDoeIdeasShowsLyingArtistForceOpinionWiseAdviceCommunicationMassDirectTechniqueAll KindsAwakeVentureInvitationsPersonal ExperiencesDormantMass CommunicationWise Advice Author:Antoni Tapies
“Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality... Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.” PeopleHardShowsRealityLyingRolesFashionPaperPhotographyNewsPhotographDeceptionPropagandaGlamorous Author:Martin Parr
“On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths - half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.” ShowsHomeLastsPoliticalLyingHalfOpinionWifeMonthsLateElectionRadioMy WifeDrivingWeatherAfternoonFreakTrafficPornographyDistortionHalf TruthDriving HomeInformed Opinions Author:Bill Moyers
“The girls show up wearing nothing. I can't lie, I'm 16, I don't hate it. I don't have a girlfriend.” I CanShowsLyingHateGirlGirlfriendDon't Hate Author:Justin Bieber
“Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.” IfsStillsShowsProblemRunningLyingPurposeModernCapitalismOvercomingCrisisProsperityDeeperLooming Book:Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory Source: Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory
“Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.” WantShowsMovingLyingSecretMouthsFilledLipsHolesSignals Book:The Ice is Singing Source: The Ice is Singing
“Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of stars which the ancients thought fit to call the Virgin, therefore, shall our women be barren, or have frequent miscarriages, or die old maids. I know of nothing which hangs so ill together! To offer such things in seriousness, shows the greatest contempt of mankind, and the most scandalous lying impunity.” KnowsShowsTogetherLyingDiesStarsPrinciplesGroupsAtheismMankindPrayingFitOffersShameIllPositive AtheismContemptSincerityVirginsI PraySeriousnessMaidsBarrenImpunityCometsScandalousMiscarriageOld Maids Author:Pierre Bayle
“I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.” MenMeanTwoShowsLyingCrosses Author:Jim Elliot
“You should never write your own resume, personal ad, or obituary. In all three cases it is better to show your humility by letting someone else lie for you.” ShouldWritingShowsLyingThreeCasesHumilityAdsResumesObituaryWrite Your Own Author:David Hayden
“An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.” IfsSaidUseShowsLyingDesireProduceIndustryOne DayWasteLaborPlantPhilosopherItalianEstatesCultivationNegligence Author:Samuel Johnson