The truth will set us free. But freedom is cold and empty and frightening, and lies can often be warm and beautiful.
He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.
Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)
My pants are on fire!
He thought: Because when you tell a lie it must be to keep from saying a worse thing. Then lying is not a Sin and God will not punish you. (But what if God is one of them?)
One thing I think, about humans is that we'd rather live in a comfortable lie then in an unpleasant truth.
Reporters are not scientific. They do not follow scientific methods. They write to sell, not to educate. The scientist is not concerned with what sells. He is concerned with the truth. He undertakes y...
A lie has more dynamic than truth but truth has more potential.
One of the greatest lies ever told to women is that it is only when they make up that they become beautiful
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
Reality blithely ignores the lies we tell ourselves about it.
If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?
Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.
Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.
You know all of the young gentlemen better than I do, Lady Manston continued. Are there any we should avoid? All of them, George wanted to say. ''What about Ashbourne’s son?''No. No? his mother echoe...
There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it w...
Brendan knew about the truth. In most cases, it was just a matter of deciding whether you wanted to look it in the face or live with the comfort of ignorance and lies. And ignorance and lies were ofte...
Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.
Live, but do not love, because love is simply a lie, only heartache waits in its wake.
When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence.