I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read -… — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said… — Keeley Hawes Copy Share Image
What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And you don't care that I'm your brother," he said. "I know how you felt about Jace, even when you thought he… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The administration is out lying through its teeth about all these people signing up and how great Obamacare is now. Meanwhile, Obama… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The gospel of a God found in broken flesh, humility, and measureless charity has defeated all the old lies, rendered the ancient… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: What… — Hafez Copy Share Image
In truth we gaze but do not see, and hearken but do not hear; we eat and drink but do not taste.… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Honesty is basic. It is true that lying is an accomplice to every other form of vice. Or, as someone has said,… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
You are so high in the tree.If you jumpyou will live a full lifewhile falling.You will get marriedto a hummingbirdand raise beautiful… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
I guess it happens. What - Marco actually gave me cover, because he actually said the same thing, and he said it… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men. — Ron Dart Copy Share Image
Lies are like garbage that you can't throw away. They clutter your life, foul your air, and make living unbearable. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“You can't touch me," I whisper. I'm lying, is what I don't tell him. He can touch me, is what I'll never… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
A person can perhaps trust his eyes only to the amount of truth his heart does not mind to speak openly to… — Anuj Copy Share Image
The idea is that it will tell you where the importance lies, because it will be able to show you what impacts… — Michael A. Hess Copy Share Image
Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Some people think self-employment is risky, but the real risk lies in deriving your security from an external source. — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
He's a little deceiving. He doesn't have a real good arm slot as far as trying to pick the ball up out… — Craig Biggio Copy Share Image
I think the worst lie I ever told was, because my last name is Goth, I used to tell kids at school… — Mia Goth Copy Share Image
All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Each night I lie and dream about the one Who kissed me and awakened my desire I spent a single hour with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel mushy these days when I think about art and artists and the work that lies ahead for us. There's good… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation… — John Christopher Copy Share Image
The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
