Pete Yorn quote: “I’m wide awake, I’ll drop you off for saying that, For days and two weeks, It was you who was defending such a lie, Oh …”

“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 (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter

Cry! Cry! Cry!
Song lyrics, Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957)

“Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“I didn’t hire you to come here and lie! That’s a true note. I signed it. I’ll pay it.… What I employed you for was to get this business put over to the next court — not come here and lie and juggle about it!”

Ethan Allen (1738–1789) American general

Courtroom exclamation to his lawyer, who had begun to deny that Allen's signature on a document was genuine, as quoted in "In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!" - American Heritage magazine Vol. 14, Issue 6 (October 1963)

“What do dogs do on their day off?; Can't lie around – that's their job!”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“Don’t ask me any more questions, Keller. I’m just going to lie to you and I’d rather not have the stress of trying to remember what lie I handed you. (Alexion)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Sins of the Night

“All boys lie," Ben said. "And all girls lie, too. I lie. You lie. Don't pretend you don't.”

Holly Black book The Darkest Part of the Forest

The Darkest Part of the Forest

“You lie—under a mistake,
For this is the most civil sort of lie
That can be given to a man's face. I now
Say what I think.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

Translation of Calderon's Magico Prodigioso, Scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Lie and Lie until you succeed.”

Akshay Agrawal (1998) Serial Social Entrepreneur

TEDx talk at Oberoi International School, Mumbai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUisKJ7hnwA

“I didn’t hire you to come here and lie! That’s a true note. I signed it. I’ll pay it.…”

Ethan Allen (1738–1789) American general

Courtroom exclamation to his lawyer, who had begun to deny that Allen's signature on a document was genuine, as quoted in "In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!" - American Heritage magazine Vol. 14, Issue 6 (October 1963)
Context: I didn’t hire you to come here and lie! That’s a true note. I signed it. I’ll pay it.… What I employed you for was to get this business put over to the next court — not come here and lie and juggle about it!

“I’m wide awake, I’ll drop you off for saying that, For days and two weeks, It was you who was defending such a lie, Oh what a lie, Was it a lie? ~ "Sense"”

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