Lie Quotes

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

Socrates

All of his saves have come in relief appearances.

Ralph Kine

I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.

George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt, in National Enquire

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

Umberto Eco

I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty.

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.

Bartholomew

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...

Learned Hand

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15.

Ronald Reagan

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Charles De Gaulle

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

Sydney Harris

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Mark Twain

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Henry David Thoreau

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Paddy Chayefsky

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The nature of men and women - Their essential nature - Is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

W. Somerset Maugham

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface.

Aldous Huxley

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Peter Ustinov

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

Stephen Jay Gould

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Matt Groening

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewrite.

Woody Allen

If there were a verb meaning to believe falsely, it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles

Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold - Bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

James R. Lowell

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

I know three things will never be believed - The true, the probable, and the logical.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent, chapter 2

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

Jean - Paul Sartre

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

George Bernard Shaw

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Harry S. Truman