Lie Quotes
What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.Phil Donahue
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the godsThey kill us for their sport.William Shakespeare
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - A sense of humor and a sense of proportion.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.W. L. George
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.Thomas Paine
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.John Quincy Adams
I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.Tom Robbins
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
Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.Rene Descartes
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.La Rochefoucauld
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.Louise Erdrich
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.John Buchan
Lie Down and Roll Over and 159 Other Ways To Say I Love You.Book title by Erskine & Moran - 1981
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?Cesare Pavese
What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.Neil Postman
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.Edward Gibbon
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
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.George Bernard Shaw
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.John Stuart Mill
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin D. Roosevelt
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve.Napolean Hill
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.Macduff
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.Alexander Hamilton
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?Pliny the Elde
If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this enjoy it but never quite believe it.Robert Montgomery
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.Montesquieu
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.Alexander Pope
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.Lou Dorfsman
You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.Rose Macauley
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.Peter Ustinov
We have to believe in free will. Weve got no choice.Isaac Bashevis Singe
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939
