Lie Quotes
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.Alice Walke
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.A Bartlett Giamatti
The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.Havelock Ellis
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.Adolf Hitle
It is forbidden to decry other sects the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.Asoka
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.Frank Lloyd Wright
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - - Except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets for it is in London that our scene lies, rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.Edward Bulwer - Lytton, Paul Clifford
We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.Harriet Martineau
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty.John D. Rockefeller Jr.
That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.J. W. Alexande
I believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point, I believe in our need for them.Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing, Page 4, final paragraph
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.William James
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self - Made sepulcher of a living man.Francis Quarles
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Thomas Jefferson
I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.Josh Billings
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.Louis D. Brandeis
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.H. L. Mencken
I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day.William Gordon
Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.Denis Johnston
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.Charles Lindbergh
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.Alan Watts
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.Claud Cockburn
On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - Halftime.Unknown
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - A trial of spiritual resolve the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.Ronald Reagan
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.H. L. Mencken
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - - Deliberate, contrived and dishonest - - But the myth - - Persistant, persuasive and unrealistic.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin D. Roosevelt
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...G. K. Chesterton
The chief proof of mans greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
We have to believe in free will. We? ve got no choice.Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Times (1982)
Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.John Schumake
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.Aesop
