Sentence examples for a lie to think from inspiring English sources

It is all a lie to think violence will solve the problem even if the critic used it.

"It's a lie to think that you're not worth anything".

"It's a lie to think that you're not good enough," Nick says.

It may be reassuring, a pleasant lie, to think that better filmmakers appeal to our emotions, not merely prey on them, but the great directors need hearts of killers and stone-cold calculation to have their way with us successfully.

Better to lie to sex, I think.

The stamps will reflect that you entered Mexico then re-entered only a few days later, so you might want to think of a lie to explain where you went in between.

Do you think I lie to people?

Near the end of Shirley Jackson's most famous novel, "The Haunting of Hill House," the heroine, a lonely young woman named Eleanor, thinks to herself, "What I want in all this world is peace, a quiet spot to lie and think, a quiet spot up among the flowers where I can dream and tell myself sweet stories".

If this is my last chapter, I have to read it that way, but you know I've had a lot of time to think lying here and — " In her broad, kind face, nearly as pale as her pillow, Mamie's watery blue eyes faltered, becoming quick and dry.

Ontological concern is not a correction of a lay thought and practice; it is foreign to the lay culture, though an outgrowth of it" (1981, 9).

At the moment I said it, I thought, 'Is that a lie?' So there's something to think about," she added, contradicting herself precisely as a character in a Diane Williams story might.