“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
That's my favorite thing about him. I like to lie next to him when it's late, dark, and so quiet I can… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Accuracy first,” I used to tell the writers. “We must never lie by accident, or through slovenliness, only deliberately! — Sefton Delmer 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
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
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
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
In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Why do I think the polls were wrong? People were relying on the pollsters. There was "the Brexit Effect." I think there's… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
The only real argument against the Bible is an unholy life. When a man argues against the Word of God, follow him… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive,… — Laurie Halse Anderson 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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
“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
“We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
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
“If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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
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
That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
![“I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what people make out of their reality in a totalitarian system like Castro's. They take flight and move into the imagination in order to transcend their immediate reality. I had to write this play. It helped me…” quote by Nilo Cruz](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a26/nilo-cruz-36320_age_i-was-taught-to-lie-at-a-young-age-i-thi_3050601.jpg)
