Lie Quotes

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

Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.

John Schumake

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - - There, if one must speak out, the real man.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

William Arthur Ward

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles, Creusa

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass.

American Indian Prove

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Robert Anton Wilson

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

Stephen Jay Gould

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

George Carlin

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Benjamin Disraeli

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Persian Prove

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

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

Norman R. Augustine

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

Ovid, Metamorphoses

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Richard Adams

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

Alcoholics Anonymous Praye

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Sydney Harris

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

Stephen A. Brennan

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Mahatma Gandhi

An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.

Franklin P. Jones

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.

James Harvey Robinson

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

Robert J. Ringe

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, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts".

Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.

Jerry Coleman

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

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

Noah Porte

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

Malcolm Boyd

Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.

French Prove

He who is always his own counselor will often have a fool for his client.

Hunte

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.

George Bernard Shaw

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

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

Karin Ireland

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Charles A. Dana