Lie Quotes

Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.

Signs

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Prince Otto

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

Alfred A. Montapert

I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.

M. C. Esche

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

Russell Bake

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff

Every man has his follies - - And often they are the most interesting thing he had got.

Josh Billings

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

Denis Johnston

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.

Unknown

Mankind is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX

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

The Godless would deny and destroy human rights.... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned.

U. S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.

Coleman Cox

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

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

Dick Gregory

Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

Fulton J. Sheen

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, O Magazine

Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.

Sir Ronald A. Fishe

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

J. P Morgan, when asked what the stock market will do, replied,

It will fluctuate.

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

Alexander Pope

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, The autocrat of the breakfast - Table

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U. S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

Stephen Ambrose, D - Day, page 577

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

Alice Walker, Living by the Word, 1988

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Carrie P. Snow

Who could follow Carson? Well, believe me, somebody can - And will.

Johnny Carson, Playboy Interview - December 1967

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

Tony Montana I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Scarface

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

Erich Fromm

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

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

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]

America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esa

It is twice as hard to crush a half - Truth as a whole lie.

Unknown

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

Martin Luthe

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.

Frank Tyge