Lie Quotes

Naturally, we cannot say much about the spiritual body, because we cannot imagine what it would be like to have a spiritual body different from that which we now inhabit but it seems to me reasonable to believe that we are weaving our spiritual bodies as we go along.

William R. Matthews

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

Malcolm Boyd

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha

Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

Lillian Hellman

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!

Alfred A. Montapert

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.

Gerald W. Johnston

I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994

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

John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent, chapter 2

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Thomas Carlyle

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

George Santayana

Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.

William S. Burroughs

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Thomas Fulle

I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Benjamin Franklin

In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Art is a lie that tells the truth.

Pablo Picasso

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alfred Alde

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

John Ciardi

Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?

Author Unknown

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Besseme

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

Jawahar Lal Neheru

A lie travels farther than the truth.

Irish Prove

Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

Havelock Ellis

We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.

John F. Kennedy, Introducing Pablo Casals at a White House dinner, November 1961, at which he performed publicly for the first t

It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.

Alexander Pope

I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.

Washington Irving

When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.

H. Allen Smith

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Aeschylus

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition

One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. On Soviet and Allied missiles in Europe.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy.

Louise Bogan

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Rmy de Gourmont

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Mark Twain