Lie Quotes
We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.Susan Jeffers
Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.John Cogley Commonweal
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
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.Thomas Carlyle
Invincibility lies in the defense the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends when his strength is inadequate he attacks when it is abundant.Sun - Tzu
Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.Author Unknown
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.George Gordon Byron
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.Louis D. Brandeis
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
Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.Fulton J. Sheen
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.William James
Most of our so - Called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.James Harvey Robinson
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.Henry David Thoreau
The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.Dr. Dale E. Turne
All writers - All people - Have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half - Forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.Sir V Pritchett
Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.Louis Celine
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.Bruce Barton
Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex Are you able to have a woman He replied, Hush man most gladly indeed am I rid off it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.Sophocles
We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed.Rosalind Sussman Yalow
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.Von Weizsacke
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., retort to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, Time, November 1, 1963
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.Hermione Gingold
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.Joseph Addison
The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.David P. Mikkelson, Snopes. com, 04 - 10 - 04
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
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.Aristotle, unknown
I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.Shirley Temple Black
Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?Richard D. Rosen
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.William Occam
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.Miguel Cervantes
You are not made happy by the true things you believe from your faith, but by the goodness which comes from your faith.Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Arcana Coelestia" #4984
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
It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.Alexander Pope
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
You have to believe that the universe will provide.Steve Crosby
Believe in life Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.W. E. B. Du Bois
Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.Fulton John Sheen
