Lies can be formed from truths, but truths cannot be formed from lies.
It meant nothing. Some people are like that: everything comes out like a lie. Not that they're brilliant liars, just that they're useless at telling the truth. You get left with no way to tell what's the real fake and what's the fake one.
Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’ secret places.
REJECT THE LIES AND VIOLENCE. STAND FOR LOVE, TRUTH, DECENCY AND THE COMMON GOOD.
Lies destroy. But, you don’t have to stay broken forever.
It was then, there in the darkness, with only those little pin-points of light to see by, light from a world away where other people with their own problems and their own secrets lived their own lives, that everything in our world changed for good.
The greatest fool is not the person who has been fooled by the lies of others, despite how crafty and ingenious those lies might have been. Rather, it is the fool who has lied with such amazing dexterity and subtle finesse that he himself has come to believe his own lies. And this is the most forlorn and yet the most dangerous person that I can imagine.
This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies
Use truth to fight the lies. Use the heart to fight the mind.
Yeah, it didn't work like that because lies cannot protect
I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and cinema verite as a cinema of lies that depends on the art of telling yourself lies. If you’re a good storyteller then the lie is more true than reality, and if you’re a bad one, the truth is worse than a half lie.
Tell them a lie big enough, they'll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and they'll mock you.
We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.
We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds.
a thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer then the truth
Die meisten Lügen sind wahr und spinnen sich von ganz allein, kaum jemand kannte diese Wahrheit besser als Colin Darcy. Wenn man erst einmal der Melodie der Worte zu lauschen beginnt, dann pfeift man sie bald selbst. Und wenn Lügen wie kunstvolle Lieder sind, dann gehörte Helen Darcy, Colins Mutter, zu jenem seltenen Menschenschlag, der allzeit eine beschwingte Melodie auf den Lippen trägt.
why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?
Analogies are like lies.
When the world is pregnant with lies, a secret long hidden will be revealed.
You can't lie a lifetime,son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you