The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you. — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness. — William Carey Copy Share Image
Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know? — Bristol Palin Copy Share Image
“There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended. ” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Struggle is the father of all things, virtue lies in blood, leadership is primary and decisive — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free. — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come… — John Proctor Copy Share Image
The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked. “I’d think that you were lying,” Vin… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just… — John Green Copy Share Image
What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
As William Gibson says, the future is already here but it's lumpy. It's unevenly distributed. Some people are already living this, the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned — Henry Timrod Copy Share Image
The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically. — James Rollins Copy Share Image
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would love to say how nice it is to see you again, but that would be a lie. And I am… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to… — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
That romantic notion of a band being a total democracy is just like lying to yourself in the mirror. — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
