Lie Quotes

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

Havelock Ellis

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well - Meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re - Armament

Most of our so - Called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

James Harvey Robinson

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

James Truslow Adams

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Johann von Goethe

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Colin Powell

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

James Agee

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies.

John Dryden

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

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Marie Curie

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Stephen A. Brennan

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Peter Ustinov

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Voltaire

Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who believes that his own truth is complete and final must become a dogmatist... The more sincere his faith, the more he is bound to persecute, to save others from falling into error.

Joyce

Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term etymology was formed from the Latin etus eaten, the root mal bad, and logy study of. It meant the study of things that are hard to swallow.

Mike Kellen

On her first meeting with he ex - Husband, Steven Seagal He reminded me of an alien.

Kelly Le Brock

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

Only lie about the future.

Johnny Carson

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

Johnny Carson, Playboy Interview - December 1967

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.

President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549

A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two.

Richard Kehl

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on.

Charles Manson

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy

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

Louisa May Alcot

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Joseph Brodsky

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Don Frase

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porte

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.

Thomas Jefferson

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Robert J. Ringe

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice.

Joseph Dunninger, Mentalist