Lie Quotes

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don? t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

Orison Swett Marden

Oh, that way madness lies let me shun that.

William Shakespeare

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

Alfred A. Montapert

As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.

Robertson Davies

Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy.

William Shakespeare

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Mohandas Ghandi

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

Homer, The Odyssey

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso, Asher Lev Book

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine

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

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

Max Born

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

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.

Bertrand Russell

The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.

Samuel Butle

Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

Heinrich Heine

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H. 96, ll. 11 - 12.

There are laws for everything except the harm families do.

Sue Grafton, "D" is for Deadbeat

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

The whole of the Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

Albert Gallatin

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

Unknown

You must believe in God in spite of what the clergy say.

Benjamin Jowett

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Roge

Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.

Romanian Prove

We have to believe in free will. We? ve got no choice.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Times (1982)

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.

Frank Zappa

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

Peter Ustinov

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Dag Hammarskjld

Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.

James Arthur Baldwin

All of his saves have come in relief appearances.

Ralph Kine

Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.

Baltasar Gracian

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - - Except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets for it is in London that our scene lies, rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton, Paul Clifford