„I have heard the annunciation of whatever finer things are to come. Through me has passed, without staying me in my course, the Word which does not lie, and which, said over again, will satisfy.“

„Can you turn so you’re not pressed against me?”

“I could,” he said, his voice amused. “But then you would have to lie on top of me.”

My brain said, “NO.” My body went, “Wheee!“

—  Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Quelle: Burn for Me

„Judy: [after catching defendant in a lie; he admitted that he was living with his witness when a few moments earlier he had said he wasn't] PERFECT! So now you're living back together again. And why, Nick, did you feel as if it was necessary to lie to me a moment ago?
Defendant: I… have been staying in Minneapolis every now and then… but I… didn't mean to lie to you.
Judy: There's another reason, Nick.
Defendant: There's no reason to lie. I'm sorry.
Judy: Well…
Defendant's Witness: Not many people know that he is staying there with me.
Judy: Now ten million people know that he's staying with you.“

—  Judith Sheindlin American lawyer, judge, television personality, and author 1942

Audience laughs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8B09JYv4Hs&feature=channel_video_title
Dialogue

„He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.“

—  Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Quelle: The Hunger Games

„My convictions, positive and negative, on all the matters of which you speak, are of long and slow growth and are firmly rooted. But the great blow which fell on me seemed to stir them to their foundation, and had I lived a couple of centuries earlier I could have fancied a devil scoffing at me and them — and asking me what profit it was to have stripped myself of the hopes and consolations of the mass of mankind? To which my only reply was and is — Oh devil! Truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name and fame were all to be lost to me one after the other as the penalty, still I will not lie.“

—  Thomas Henry Huxley English biologist and comparative anatomist 1825 - 1895

1860s, Reply to Charles Kingsley (1860)

„When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe.“

—  Marlon Brando American screen and stage actor 1924 - 2004

New York Times (July 2, 2004)
Kontext: When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: 'God, I have no importance. Whatever I do or don't do, or what anybody does, is not more important than the grains of sand that I am lying on, or the coconut that I am using for my pillow.' So I really don't think in the long sense.

„He took a lie detector test. I had him take a polygraph, which he passed, which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs“

—  Hillary Clinton American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady 1947

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Recorded audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2f13f2awK4, speaking about a man, on trial for raping a 12 year old girl, whom she was appointed to defend. Quoted at Frontpage Mag http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/234515/former-12-year-old-rape-victim-hillary-clinton-daniel-greenfield and ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/06/hillary-clinton-dogged-by-1975-rape-case. Audio recording at: Free Beacon http://freebeacon.com/politics/audio-hillary-clinton-speaks-of-defense-of-child-rapist-in-newly-unearthed-tapes.
1980s

„People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.“

—  William Goldman, buch The Princess Bride

Quelle: The Princess Bride

„motherland cradle me
close my eyes
lullaby me to sleep
keep me safe
lie with me
stay beside me
don't go, don't you go“

—  Natalie Merchant American singer-songwriter 1963

Song lyrics, Motherland (2001), Motherland

„Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.“

—  Beatrix Potter English children's writer and illustrator 1866 - 1943

„Justice. I've heard that word. I tried it out. I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.“

—  Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

Quelle: Wide Sargasso Sea

„I lie awake at night to wait 'til you come in.
You stay a little while and then you're gone again.
Every question that I ask, I get a lie, lie, lie.
For every lie you tell, you're gonna cry, cry, cry!“

—  Johnny Cash American singer-songwriter 1932 - 2003

Cry! Cry! Cry!
Song lyrics

„The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.“

—  Giacomo Casanova Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice 1725 - 1798

„It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.“

—  Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955

Letter to an atheist (24 March 1954), p. 43
Attributed in posthumous publications

„My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us.“

—  Friedrich Nietzsche, buch Götzen-Dämmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert

Variant translation: Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.
Expeditions of an Untimely Man, 38
Twilight of the Idols (1888)
Kontext: My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. I give an example. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions. One knows, indeed, what their ways bring: they undermine the will to power; they level mountain and valley, and call that morality; they make men small, cowardly, and hedonistic [genüsslich] — every time it is the herd animal that triumphs with them. Liberalism: in other words, herd-animalization...

„Goodbye. You have gone to the place where we can never meet again
I can't accept the coldness of an eternal parting
I wish I could have heard you say
That surely, you had loved me
Only once, even if it were a lie“

—  Ayumi Hamasaki Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress 1978

Memorial Address ~Take 2 Version~
Lyrics, Memorial Address

„It is just that, in so terrible a day, and in the last moments of my life, I should discover all the iniquity of falsehood, and make the truth triumph. I declare, then, in the face of heaven and earth, and acknowledge, though to my eternal shame, that I have committed the greatest crimes but it has been the acknowledging of those which have been so foully charged on the order. I attest - and truth obliges me to attest - that it is innocent! I made the contrary declaration only to suspend the excessive pains of torture, and to mollify those who made me endure them. I know the punishments which have been inflicted on all the knights who had the courage to revoke a similar confession; but the dreadful spectacle which is presented to me is not able to make me confirm one lie by another. The life offered me on such infamous terms I abandon without regret.“

—  Jacques de Molay Grand Master of the Knights Templar 1243 - 1314

One of the foremost Templar scholars records of Jacques DeMolay's dying words.

„…You shouldn't clap, that [was] a lie… I like to tell lies. According to Shakira, hips don't lie. Which makes me a bundle of contradictions.“

—  Hannah Gadsby Australian comedian 1978

„It is true that most religions which have been offered me teach immortality, but note the fashion in which they teach it. The surest way to lie convincingly is to tell the truth unconvincingly. They did not wish me to believe.“

—  Robert A. Heinlein, buch They

They (p. 60)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

„I'm comfortable apart, it's all written on my chartAnd I take what's given me, most cooperativelyI do what people say and lie in bed all dayAbsolutely horrified, I hope you're satisfied<BR“

—  Elliott Smith American singer-songwriter 1969 - 2003

Memory Lane.
Lyrics, From a Basement on the Hill (posthumous, 2004)