Lie Quotes
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.Hermann Hesse
As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.Robertson Davies
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.Pamela Vaull Sta
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.Bertrand Russell
Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.Friedrich Nietzsche
But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.Robert Frost
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.Von Weizsacke
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. - - Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U. S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.Robert Lynd
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.Henry Louis Mencken
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.Norman Vincent Peale
He who is always his own counselor will often have a fool for his client.Hunte
Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.William James
For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - To live dangerously.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283
Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.Willa Cathe
The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.Persian Prove
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.Alexander Pope
Who lies for you will lie against you.Bosnian Prove
The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.Saint Thomas Aquinas, Two Precepts of Charity
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.Andr Dubus
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.Roland, "The Last Gunslinger".
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.Robert Francis Kennedy
You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on.Charles Manson
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.Joesph Conrad, "Carnival of Wit".
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.Johann von Goethe
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.Leo Rosten
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.Unknown
Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?Richard D. Rosen
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.William Arthur Ward
The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.Epictetus
All things are possible to him that believeth.Mark 9: 23
Lie Down and Roll Over and 159 Other Ways To Say I Love You.Book title by Erskine & Moran - 1981
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.Thomas Carlyle
Man is what he believes.Anton Chekhov
