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“One of my mantras in life is ‘as you lay your bed, so you lie on it’.”
Banke Meshida Lawal (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ever since I met the real peasants, every bucolic has seemed like a lie to me: even mine. (September 19, C.E.1904; Vergani, pp. 219-220)”
Jules Renard (1864–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sun rises before me, but I lie down after him. We are tied and drawn. (September 24, C.E.1906; Vergani, p. 242)”
Jules Renard (1864–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mourning: The black lie. (August 22, C.E.1909; Vergani, p. 274)”
Jules Renard (1864–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I asked the people to be realistic and we discussed several things. In most instances, politicians usually lie to voters and promise what they cannot achieve.”
Charity Kathambi Chepkwony wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being a public figure and a leader in this country, Raila attracts crowds of people who want to pose for photos with him, but these are innocent pictures which should not be misused by a few mischievous politicians to lie to the people that they mean endorsements.”
Ruth Odinga wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not only is it easy to lie with maps, it is essential. To portray meaningful relationships for a complex, three-dimensional world on a flat sheet of paper or screen, a map must distort reality.”
Mark Monmonier (born 1943) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the 2018 3rd edition of Monmonier's book How to Lie With Maps.
“O, Stranger passing by, go tell the Spartans that here obedient to their commands we lie.”
Agathe Uwilingiyimana (1953–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being loving and kind, giving your life purpose, and simply doing something – these simple things that we often complicate as humans, lie at the core of that energy, and at the core of how we should exist.”
Laila Johnson-Salami (born 1997) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't be afraid to take risks, because that's where growth and opportunity lie.”
Ursula Burns (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not easy running a business in Ghana. People will sabotage you and getting workers is tough. People are always crying on social media about unemployment. It is all a lie because they don't need any job, they are lazy. The youth are lazy because they think that once you are born, you start walking...it is a process but without any experience, they expect so much.”
Beverly Afaglo (1983–2026) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The youth are lazy - Beverly Afaglo shares ordeal, Ghana Web, April 12, 2023.
“The glow of delicioous tension coudn't be faked, not at any price. So when you leave, that's when you realise you've been living in a lie.”
Lesley Lokko (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Which makes life itself a lie, Flattering dust with eternity.”
Sardanapalus wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Lord Byron
“A big part of this will lie in helping governments “pivot” away from the old energy provision models — based on centralized, fossil fuel-based utilities — toward newer decarbonized and decentralized models,”
Rachel Kyte (born 2000) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There’s a structural sexism problem, full stop. If you look at the numbers, they don’t lie. There’s just not as many women leading, in that sense – running the organisation, being the figurehead.”
“This is not just my achievement, iti is a celebration of our collective perseverance and determination. Here's to new beginnings and the endless possibilities that lie ahead .”
Obuobia Darko-Opoku (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We came out bruised, our individual and collective egos battered. We lie not in a good place. However, as our great tradition had demonstrated over the years… we will thrive.”
Ursula Owusu (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wondered how he could be so trusting of the universe to lie asleep in the middle of it.”
Imraan Coovadia (born 1970) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chapter 4, “Rio, 1967” (p. 136)
“The eyes, if one knows them well, rarely lie (chapter XXII, p342)”
Marie Vieux-Chauvet (1916–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We’ve got one huge advantage—people believe what they see in databases. They’ve never learned the most important rule of cyberspace—computers don’t lie but liars can compute.”
Terry Hayes (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“DNA doesn’t lie.”
Terry Hayes (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“... if you take the s, we have a classification of them ... And then we've got a very simple explanation of why this list turns up, that they more or less correspond to finite reflection groups. And we know who to classify finite reflection groups. ... we can give single uniform construction of all the compact Lie groups. But there's nothing like that for the sporadic groups.”
Richard Borcherds (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He began quietly to tell her the details of Kenny's letter, and as she listened she thought with a kind of tired and comfortable amusement that the ghosts were really catching up with her. Ralph, or her lie to herself, had kept them away for more than a year. But all ghosts had the right, sooner or later, to frighten the people they haunted. (book 5 chapter 2)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How poor remembrances are statues, tombs, And other monuments that men erect To princes, which remain in closèd rooms Where but a few behold them, in respect Of Books, that to the universal eye Show how they lived; the other where they lie!”
John Florio (1553–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Rose of the World hangs high on a thorny Tree. Whoso would gather must harrow his hands and feet. But oh! It is sweet.The leaves that drop like blood from the thorny Tree Redden the roads of the earth from East to West. They lie in my breast.O Rose, O Rose of the World, bow down to me Who can cleave no more, so pierced are my hands and feet. For oh! Thou art sweet.”
Rachel Annand Taylor (1876–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Alo is a lie!”
Amos Tutuola (1920–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His mind was like a jewel with innumerable facets, all slightly blurred or misted; or perhaps it would be a juster illustration to compare his character to an opal, where all the colours lie perdue, drowned in a milky mystery, and so arranged that to a couple of observers, simultaneously bending over it, the prevalent hue shall in one case seem a pale green, in the other a fiery crimson.”
John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley (1835–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Edmund Gosse, "Lord De Tabley: A Portrait", Critical Kit-Kats (1896), p. 165
“I think Donald Trump didn't serve in the military, but he didn't lie about it.”
J.D. Vance (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Donald Trump didn't lie about serving in the military. He didn't say that he went to Vietnam when he didn't. This is the problem. I don't criticize anybody. Whether they served in our country or not.”
J.D. Vance (born 1984) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: JD Vance Confronted on Donald Trump Avoiding Service in Vietnam War", Newsweek (August 11, 2024)
“I feel most free when I am myself, stripped of all pretences, lounging naked on my bed, my boobies freely rolling to wherever they choose to land, my belly relaxed and soft, my thighs apart, my hands wherever they may choose to lie. With no one around me, I am my most free self.”
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Psy was smiling. It was warm and soft, and to Eros it looked like the perfect place to lie in and just be.”
Bolu Babalola (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Aren’t you tired of mandem using your hearts for sport? I ask this now because I heard there’s a new player in town. And I won’t lie, he’s kind of cute too. A snack. A beverage. But you guys know that too much coffee is bad for you, right?”
Bolu Babalola (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These damnable laws which dictate to you where, and next to whom, you shall walk, sit, stand and lie... This whole abominable nauseating business of toilets and "separate but equal facilities"... What is one to do anyway? One is forever in a trap from which there is no escape... except suicide...”
Miriam Tlali (1933–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To make babies, the bride and groom had to dress up nicely, put flowers in their hair and lie down together on a very big bed. The next thing you knew, many mornings later, there was a little baby crawling between them”
Fatema Mernissi (1940–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Imaginary Paintings 6 How Would I Paint the Big Lie Smooth, and deceptively small so that it can be swallowed like something we take for a cold. ...sweet and glossy, that pleases the tongue and goes down easy, never mind the poison inside. 7 How Would I Paint Nostalgia ...A radiant bride in white standing above a waterfall, watching the water rush away...”
Lisel Mueller (1924–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They teach and live the Golden Rule Of Young Democracy:—‘That culture, joy and goodliness Be th’ equal right of all: That Greed no more shall those oppress Who by the wayside fall:‘That each shall share what all men sow: That colour, caste’s a lie: That man is God, however low— Is man, however high.’”
Bernard O'Dowd (1866–1953) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Young Democracy", sts. 22–4, in A Southern Garland (Sydney, 1904), n.p.
“His one positive quality was mendacity. ... He could lie. His style was ornate, yet reposeful; microscopically exact, yet large and sublime. You could sit down and rest in the cool shade of one of his fabrications.”
Joseph Furphy (1843–1912) first seen 1905 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Buln-Buln and the Brolga (wr. from 1905; pub. 1946)
“Whoever is closer to the wheels of the revolution, the more dangers lie in wait for him/her.”
Maryam Firouz (1913–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Farmanfarma's Daughter", Persian BBC's Documentary. November 6, 2015.
“Entrepreneurship and innovation, as well as access to technology, lie at the heart of public-private-youth partnerships, as this is a clear path to creating impactful progress, and brings creative and new ideas to the table. That’s how one can advance anything, be it on a small scale within a company or on a larger scale in terms of the economy.”
Rania Al-Mashat (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So, here I am I in bed, just struggling with myself to understand why on earth a deputy minister of state will look at the people who hosted him almost all his life (27yrs) according to him, in the face and tell us we are difficult people and also that we lie to extortionate money from government. I am sure this was said without any evidence.”
Clara Napaga Tia Sulemana (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love." "Yet I am living without love." "Then you are either living a lie or not living at all.”
Nawal El Tatawy (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So much do I love wandering, So much I love the sea and sky, That it will be a piteous thing In one small grave to lie!”
Zoe Akins (1886–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s a total lie to say government has marginalized northern Uganda because we have programs like peace recovery and development plan,Northern Uganda social action funds and agricultural live good recovery program which is not there in other districts”
Rebecca Amuge Otengo (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“when you stole my vote you thought it was done but in your fraudulent way you want to think that when you lie that your victory was robbed,your creditors will back off and forgive you,but as for me I’m waiting to once again give you your food(defeat)in 2026 because you have taken your foolery too far”
Idah Nantaba (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You have done well to come. I am always worried that history about the March 3, 1959 event and freedom fighters is always distorted. To begin with, even some of the very historians we trust do lie.”
Vera Chirwa (born 1932) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How women counted: Story of Vera ChirwaThe Times(Mar 3, 2016)
“I wrote of this in People of the Lie. Using My Lai as a case study, I demonstrated how evil at an institutional and group level occurs when there is a fragmentation of consciousness – and conscience.”
M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I might almost define a lie as being the narrative of a human event that had been printed.”
Young E. Allison (1853–1932) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Hitchcock (1914), p. 47
“Why does a racist society end up producing, validating, and recirculating racist science, for instance? I don’t think it’s adequate to say that racists create a well-packaged lie that none of them actually believe and put it into circulation to preserve existing hierarchies. I think racist ideas are genuinely believed by racists, even when they verge into absurdity.”
Donovan Schaefer (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But beneath the phenomenon lie economic and political forces that have to do with the transformative history of the present”
Jean Comaroff (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For 'tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; The loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.”
Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet (1615–1674) said by 1674 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source