Lie Quotes

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow - worm.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Thomas Carlyle

Oh, replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, he told me to come and see you.

Author Unknown

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Andr Dubus

Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

No one can give you authority. But if you act like you have it, others will believe you do.

Karin Ireland

They can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

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

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Peter Ustinov

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Neil Postman

It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Henry Ford

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Sir Francis Bacon

We believe he wanted to win in the worst way.

Don Eslinger, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

Bellamy Brooks

To teach well is to believe in what and whom you teach.

Donna Bulge

If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst.

Thomas Hardy

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

Martin Luthe

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.

Elbert Hubbard

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

Rose Macauley

Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.

Spider - Man

Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell, 1946

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, We lie.

Simonides, Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae

The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings.

Shakespeare.

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre pg. 61

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

Benjamin Franklin

It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

Asoka