We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Closing my eyes and holding still. It's the end if I get mad or scream. It's close to a prayer. Hate is… — Kenji Goto Copy Share Image
The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
After the leg break it was a very tough time. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't sometimes thought about stopping… — Luke Shaw Copy Share Image
Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
… he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Some might say that looking inside of ourselves for spiritual truths is egocentric and selfish, and that egolessness and selflessness lie in… — Tarthang Tulku Copy Share Image
At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The Masonic movement... is the custodian of the law; it is the home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation. It… — Alice Bailey Copy Share Image
All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well,… — John D. Rockefeller III Copy Share Image
She licked again, taking her time,even though she didn't need to; her first stroke numbed the bite site. No, this second taste… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
But the thing is, from the perspective of a novelist there is a brand of lying that feels more honest than the… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
If I was lying on the side of the mountain, dying, would I have any regrets? Yeah. I would regret not making… — Jim Sarbh Copy Share Image
To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A lost trail always extends beyond the evidence, and even the trails we find are only fragments of the trails that lie… — Tom Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
“Civility is just lying to people about your true feelings. Hiding for personal gain. Popular people, well, they're just the best liars.” — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Everyone lies about sex, more or less, to themselves if not to others, to others if not to themselves, exaggerating its importance… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle… — John Locke Copy Share Image
When training young horses "There are many types of bits for many different disciplines, but the severity of ALL bits lies in… — Monty Roberts Copy Share Image
Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us,… — Emilie du Chatelet Copy Share Image
PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“His job already had him lying and manipulating me. My past had me lying and manipulating him. Both of us thought we… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love . . . There was no more hating then, And… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
The roots of our ecological crises are axiomatic: they lie in our belief and value structures which shape our relationship with nature,… — Ziauddin Sardar Copy Share Image
Iraq has slipped enough toward dangerous paths that may endanger the country if we don't realize that the solution ... lies is… — Ayad Allawi Copy Share Image
If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
