He comes on way too strong. If it has only been a couple of dates and he’s blurting out ‘I love you,’ doesn’t it make you wonder how many other women he has said those same words to?
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Quotes tagged ‘Lies’
He's all talk. A man who means business will back up his words with actions. But if you have noticed that your guy makes promise after promise and never follows through, it’s not looking good for you, girlfriend.
Another super frustrating thing commitment-phobe dudes say is: "I'm not good enough for you, trust me." Then you sit there and go, "But you are! You are, I like you so much!" trying to think of ways to convince him that he's worthy of you being his girlfriend. Girl. He's saying that because, A), he…
If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.
It's these cards and the movies and the pop songs, they're to blame for all lies and the heartache, everything.
You want to know how two chemicals interact, do you ask them? No, they're going to lie through their lying little teeth. Throw them in a beaker and apply heat.
— Matt Witten, Peter Blake, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's worth it because the future depends on them.
Truth begins in lies.
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important th…
There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.
It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time.
I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble into each other, heads down, hoping to avoid collision. I... wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, little rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of…
This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
Out of courtesy listen to all he has to say and out of caution believe none of it until he proves it
It’s tough this year. I’m worried Hillary’s a liar, and I’m worried Trump’s not.
I saw you, and I knew there was a story behind your eyes. I wanted to be the first to read it.
I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.
Maybe honesty isn't the best policy after all. Maybe it isn't a good idea to tell a newly arrived human being that he's been born into a world of chaos, pain, and poverty just in time to watch everything fall to pieces.