Lie Quotes

Eric Draven Little things use to mean so much to Shelley - I thought they were kind of trivial. Believe me, nothing is trivial.

Crow, The

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. On steel industry executives who increased prices.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value What is my worth Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

Oprah Winfrey

Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

E. e. cummings

What should move us to action is human dignity the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Dominique de Menil

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination.

Tommy Lasorda

True strength lies in gentleness.

Irish Prove

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1850

There are three kinds of lies lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Jean de La Fontaine

I am a man I hold that nothing human is alien to me.

Terence

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

Most of our students are here to get the credentials they believe are central to admission to the Dream. Everyone does the rhetoric bit - Fascist pig this and that - But push them and they ask you to write recommendations for jobs with banks and insurance companies.

John Gargin

All the means of action - The shapeless masses - The materials - Lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell

I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.

Basil W. Maturin

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Aristotle

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

Arthur Wing Pinero

You have to believe that the universe will provide.

Steve Crosby

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Schulz

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.

Albert Einstein

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 5 scene 7

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.

Louisa May Alcott

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

J. William Fulbright, Speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. April 28, 1966

We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.

Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.

Joseph Stalin

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 03 - 11 - 04

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Robert Anton Wilson

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Charles Lindbergh

What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

Pliny the Elde

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Diane Ackerman

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

G. C. Lichtenberg