Lie Quotes

Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

Lillian Hellman

The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

If you are near the enemy, make him believe you are far from him. If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

Sun - Tzu

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Henry Ward Beeche

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination.

Tommy Lasorda

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Louis Pasteu

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow - worm.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002

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

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Therapy

Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.

C. A. Bartol

We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Louisa May Alcott

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

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".

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.

Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974

I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.

Fran Lebowitz

Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.

The Talmud

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

David Ben - Gurion

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

There are laws for everything except the harm families do.

Sue Grafton, "D" is for Deadbeat

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warne

Believe in life Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.

W. E. B. Du Bois

A man is accepted into church for what he believes - - And turned out for what he knows.

Mark Twain

A belief is not true because it is useful.

Henri Frdric Amiel

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu