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“They are mistaken, people need an effective government that doesn't lie, that is always at the cutting edge. When the government is top notch, people feel the drive, they have the motivation, that's when life gets interesting... That's what people ask from the government.”
Viktor Yanukovych (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No matter how blonde you dye your hair, how sharp you shape your nose, you can never become a European or American, you can never become a Westerner, We must know where our roots lie.”
Wang Yi (born 1953) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: {{cite web |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/04/china/wang-yi-china-japan-south-korea-intl-hnk |title=‘You can never become a Westerner:’ China’s top diplomat urges Japan and South Korea to align with Beijing and ‘re…
“There is a saying, when rape is inevitable, lie down and enjoy it. That’s exactly the position into which you are.”
Ramesh Kumar (politician) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: December 2021. quoted in congress-leader-kr-ramesh-kumar-makes-shocking-comment-on-rape/ [https://www.opindia.com/2021/12/political-analyst-abdul-defends-rape-joke-by-congress-mla-ramesh-kumar/
Also quoted by: K. R. Ramesh Kumar
“When politicians use bad science to justify themselves, rather than good science to make up their minds, we can safely assume that wrongheaded and even disastrous decisions lie ahead.”
Chris Mooney (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.”
Betty White (1922–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wish that I could cry, Fall upon my knees. Find a way to lie 'Bout a home I'll never see.It may sound absurd but don't be naïve Even heroes have the right to bleed. I may be disturbed but won’t you concede Even heroes have the right to dream. And it's not easy to be me.”
Five for Fighting (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well, if I answered that I do not feel any pressure at all, that would be a lie. I just want to warm and touch the heart of our viewers. If just this one goal is met, that would mean success to me. I couldn’t ask for more.”
Lee Young-ae (born 1971) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lee Young-Ae is back, and she wants to speak for women throughout history" in Today Online (28 December 2016)
“Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep They just lie there, and they die there Are you warm? Are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art?”
Ray Evans (1915–2007) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mona Lisa" (1950)
“He wouldn’t be much of a diplomat if he couldn’t lie with a straight face.”
Elizabeth Bear (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If a man tell you that the streets of India are paved with pearls, cast the lie back in his teeth. Nor do pigs run about the streets ready roasted. To be sure, the kings and priests are rich, but that is the case in other lands, and the vulgus has as much ado to keep ahead of hunger as elsewhere.”
L. Sprague de Camp (1907–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In my opinion, the EPA's lie to New Yorkers that the air was safe to breathe after 9/11 it was not was one of the worst when its own scientists suggested it was not was one of the worst crimes of the entire Bush era.”
Jen Sorensen (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What should be hope for the Church is actually a tremendous headache from an institutional perspective. I have witnessed many bishops here saying, "No, vocations are on the rise." They don't say the same thing about religious vocations because evidently that would be a lie as the numbers are very clear.”
Norbert Klemens Strotmann Hoppe (born 1946) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bishops calls for changes in methodology at CELAM conference (29 May 2007) Catholic News Agency
“My heart and I lie small upon the earth like a grain of throbbing sand.”
Zitkala-Ša (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[It's] one thing for the President to lie to the American people about your investigation, falsely claiming that you found no collusion and no obstruction, but it's something else altogether for him to get away with not answering your questions and lying about them. And as a former law enforcement officer of almost 30 years, I find that a disgrace to our criminal justice system.”
Val Demings (born 1957) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said to Robert Mueller regarding the Mueller Investigation July 24, 2019
“consider the infinite fragility of an infant's skull, how the bones lie soft and open only time knitting them shut”
Lisa Suhair Majaj (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science denial is not a mistake, it's a lie.”
Lee McIntyre first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Amanpour and Company (September 21, 2021)
“You have many wonderful qualities, Virtue—you lie and cheat and blackmail and bluff with great panache, and you’re thoroughly delightful in bed—but you simply aren’t a skilled professional killer.”
Mike Resnick (1942–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The future victories of the working class lie not so much in their numbers (the workers have always been in the vast majority), but in the knowledge they possess and the ability to intelligently organize and act together on the political and economic fields.”
Lena Morrow Lewis (1868–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now guys, I’m just a dumb business guy for right over that hill, right there, and I can tell you, that is a lie right out of the pit of hell.”
David Perdue (born 1949) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Georgia Sen. David Perdue Speech Transcript at Trump Rally: Mocks & Mispronounces Kamala Harris’ Name" in REV (16 October 2020)
“But the most insidious thing that Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden are trying to perpetrate, and Bernie and Elizabeth and Kamala, or what? Kamala or Kamala or Kamala mala mala, I don’t know. Whatever. They’re trying to perpetrate a lie, and that is that socialism, this radical socialism that they’re trying to sell us, is better than our beloved democracy. We’re not going to let that stand.”
David Perdue (born 1949) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Georgia Sen. David Perdue Speech Transcript at Trump Rally: Mocks & Mispronounces Kamala Harris’ Name" in REV (16 October 2020)
“I believe that all of today's movements are important. What is needed is unity to achieve the independence of our nation. Some times posters, other times fires, strikes, votes, all that is necessary. My hopes lie with the youth, because you have the ability to carry the word onward.”
Blanca Canales (1906–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In fact, it was the other way round: I received a lot of support from men in my country, maybe sometimes more than my fellow women. If there were any statements on radio scandalising me or accusing me, it was my fellow women, so I think I would be telling a lie if I said that I faced that in Malawi.”
Joyce Banda (born 1950) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Joyce Banda, Africa’s first female ex-president: 'I shall always be proud of what I’ve done'The Guardians(May 7,2015)
“I was very naive. I didn’t know that people lie, I didn’t know that people didn’t write their own songs. Music has always been my expression of how I felt. It’s always been my life.”
“Forgive me for a lie, but the dead fight with the weapons they have.”
Esther Friesner (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gratitude and love. He wasn’t the only one who lived with the pretty lie that one must necessarily lead to the other.”
Esther Friesner (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And secrets are dangerous. They start small but grow with every evasive answer or outright lie that protects them. Nevertheless, I confess to finding the closeness such conspiracy breeds irresistibly delicious.”
Paula Brackston wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My children and I were profoundly devastated by those allegations, And I was torn about where my absolute morals lie.”
Catherine Zeta-Jones (born 1969) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Catherine speak on allegations against husband in 2018.
“You knew the number of beneficiaries in the first case. How come you purchased what you didn’t need? I think this is a lie unless the support program was halted .”
Beline Uwineza first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.ktpress.rw/2020/09/pac-orders-rubavu-official-to-pay-2000-sacks-of-cement-put-to-waste/ ( KT Press , September 25, 2020 )
“I don’t believe in the lie being sold to the world that Rwandan women have a voice – we don’t.”
Diane Rwigara (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“a lot of the problems that we face in terms of sustainability and environment lie at the juncture of nature and culture. So we can’t just rely on a single way of knowing that explicitly excludes values and ethics. That’s not going to move us forward.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is also honest land. It doesn’t lie or hide anything. Neither does Ama. Everything she is, everything she is about to do, is clear in her face and in her movement and in her words. The way everything is open to view when sunlight comes down through the hold where all life entered this world. (Chapter 3, p55)”
Linda Hogan (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I puzzle over humans. They can talk, but they can lie. They do not always know their own motivations.”
Linda Hogan (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But thanks for your time. Then you can thank me for mine. And after that's said, forget it. Don't be inane, there's no one to blame: no reason why you should stay here and lie to me. Don't say any more, just walk out the door, I'll get along fine. You'll see.”
Sixto Rodriguez (1942–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The republic's in trouble, we lie about everything, lying has become the staple.”
Seymour Hersh (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I lie awake with open eyes during sleepless nights and look at them in cold surprise, and I seek to understand how these strange, distant people could have once been so close and dear to me. What magical thread bound me to them? And how had they severed that thread? And why was this all so alien and meaningless to me now?”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You actually don’t have to lie about what kind of country it is, that there’s a maturity that’s implied in being able to enter discussions and studies about your history, that we need to see more of, especially in terms of our leaders, who seem very afraid to enter a period where we actually talk about these things.”
Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All paths lie together like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than the beetle’s or the mouse’s. All are held together.”
Daniel Quinn (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?”
Cynthia Ozick (born 1928) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dictation: A Quartet (2008), "What Happened to the Baby?
“For centuries, Britain has been torn between offering asylum and xenophobia to those who have presented themselves in desperation; on average asylum prevailed and has resulted in many gains for British culture. In this, as well as in understanding the circumstances that lie behind refugee desperation, history and patience lead us not to paralysis but to a knowledge of our better selves.”
Abdulrazak Gurnah (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We would lie numb, waiting for the night's Operation Cauldron to end, the leaden silence to return, the hollow grief.”
Shulamith Hareven (1930–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I cannot lie: it was draining at first. I was the highest goalscorer at the Under-17 World Cup and picked as the second-best player of the tournament [but then seeing] my career going down and hearing people say all sort of [negative] things about me … I know the kind of player I am and the quality that I possess.”
Victor Osimhen (born 1998) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Laziness Lie has three main tenets. They are: 1. Your worth is your productivity. 2. You cannot trust your own feelings and limits. 3. There is always more you could be doing.”
Devon Price (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Long live the thieves! They don't make a lie of their lives in this wormy society. They are what they are. Sincere in their disgrace. Working with them I've learnt the importance of loyalty and honor.”
Raquel Jodorowsky (1927–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It really means a lot especially knowing that we were so close to going home but it really means a lot. It is an emotional one personally because it is my first World Cup. It is really an emotional one, I do not want to lie but it’s all God’s glory for me. It means I will be able to help my family.”
Hildah Magaia (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Making the transition from player to coach was really difficult, I’m not going to lie. There is not a lot of women coaching because when we’re done, we just want to have families. But because I have so much passion I want to stay in the game, I choose to give back to the young ladies.”
Mercy Akide-Udoh (born 1975) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Former star player Mercy Akide Udoh: “I love to see women excel, Gothia Cup, 23 July 2023 by SKF
“Here lie the remnants of myriad prehistoric marine animals, including placoderms, a prehistoric class of fish that represents some of our earliest jawed ancestors.”
Kate Trinajstic first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: We found the oldest ever vertebrate fossil heart. It tells a 380 million-year-old story of how our bodies evolved. Kate Trinajstic & John Long, Published: September 15, 2022. THE CONVERSATION, Retrieved: 23, November 20…
“Solutions don’t just lie in the boardrooms run by managers, they can start from the grassroots. And solutions that are technology-based are great because you can reach more people.”
Chileshe Kapwepwe (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be very honest, 2022, has been a very challenging year for me, I won't lie but as usual in the Nigerian way we always seem to make it through no matter what and how hard things get”
“The night has its own scent and you can fall into it, | that no one sees you | but for someone like me, poor guy, who wanted to take you by the hand | and fall into a bed | how sad, how nostalgic | Don't look yourself in the eye and tell yourself another lie. | At least I hadn't met you | I'm dying here and you're eating ice cream. (from Cara, side B, n. 2)”
Lucio Dalla (1943–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And there is no end to beauty, but it's a lie, and I could explain it in words, but a photograph of the sun, no matter how hard you try, doesn't heat up the same.”
Dargen D'Amico (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source