Realness is something in such short supply; you can't believe anything anyone is saying when you turn on the television, and then… — Alaska Copy Share Image
“But Doc knew that was the key to successful lying. People judged what other people would do by what they themselves would… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do: 1.) break down,lose hope and refuse to… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that there’s a cure for this and an exception… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Yet still, there are those special secret moments in our lives, when we smile unexpectedly-when all our forces are resolved. A woman… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Clearly Democrats are not united in what is the critique of what we're doing there and what is the answer to what… — Steve Elmendorf Copy Share Image
Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There lies within each person a huge reservoir of untapped potential for achievement, success, happiness, health and greater prosperity. It's like an… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
“They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I… — Casanova Copy Share Image
For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, finds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests,… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
Live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The word is clear only to the kind who on peak or plain, from dark northern ice-fields to the hot wet jungles,… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
Either [Jesus] was what he said he was or he was the world's greatest liar. It is impossible for me to believe… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There is no love, there is only the lie we tell ourselves that things are more important than they actually are, that… — Chad Kultgen Copy Share Image
Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
What you are is much greater than anything or anyone else you have ever yearned for. God is manifest in you in… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Do you ever wonder what it's like to be so angry that you...And then something happens, and after that, everyone figures that's… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How would you like it if I said to you, 'It kills me to say this, but you're actually a tiny bit… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
The general confusion is that our moral behavior is what justifies us before God. Most of us would never say that with… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
Because I happen to believe that the best policy solutions lie in the center ground, then I want to see, how does… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
How I like claret!...It fills one's mouth with a gushing freshness, then goes down to cool and feverless; then, you do not… — John Keats Copy Share Image
When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image