She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who’d botched things so badly. They’d sold their children a… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
You tell them what a happy ending consists of, which is always individual success. You tell them that nothing irrational exists in… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
Death is an inevitable cycle. But sickness before death is a symptom of resistance. Most people think they've got to get sick… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
The child who defines a lie as being a "naughty word" knows perfectly well that lying consists in not speaking the truth.… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The parents, the society, the state, the church, the educational system, they all depend on lies. As the child is born they… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That is why every brother and sister will react differently according to how they learn to defend themselves and adapt to different… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tell me it's not true." He sighed. "Fine. It's not true." ... And yet... "Are you lying?" He rolled his eyes. "Of… — Kathleen Peacock Copy Share Image
All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many,… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
The claims [about my inappropriate conduct with women] are preposterous, ludicrous, and defy truth, common sense and logic. We already have substantial… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art… — John Walford Copy Share Image
It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do...… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“See, most people you meet, they'll talk to you through fifty layers of gauze and tinting. Sometimes you know they're lying even… — Craig Silvey Copy Share Image
“Lying is not a sin, since there has never been a law-maker or philosopher who could determine what truth is. I lie… — Iwan Goll Copy Share Image
The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to… — Arthur Schuster Copy Share Image
I think it was 50 million people across the world who marched against the war in Iraq. It was perhaps the biggest… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The beasts are very wise, Their mouths are clean of lies, They talk one to the other, Bullock to bullock brothers Resting… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
In New York we have streets exploding and innocent Buddhist girls being stabbed in the neck and cabdrivers refusing to help her.… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It may well be feared, that there is not enough Biblereading among us. It is not sufficient to have the Book. We… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
In particular, for my character, Celeste [in Big Little Lies], there was a way in which we wanted to present her, because… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must… — William Eckhardt Copy Share Image
I endeavor to shine a light on what's happening behind closed doors in the back-door deal making that so many Americans understand… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of… — Robert Gordis Copy Share Image