I figured being a bed salesman was a job of biblically bad paradox. I mean, here he was, forced to stand for… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When scandal has new-minted an old lie, Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply, 'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a… — John Florio Copy Share Image
How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle...… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Even if the most ethical people were elected to high position and we ran out of resources, there would still be lying,… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I need not to be afraid of the void. The void is part of my person. I need to enter consciously into… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
“lying was a betrayal to one’s self. It’s evidence of self-loathing. When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions,… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
Tales of cheating on school and college tests are rife. There have been instances where teachers have given students test answers in… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
For my father the one calamity was that my brother and sister and I never learned to swim. My father, who was… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
How can we recognize if we're falling into materialism's trap? Christ's words were direct and profound: "Where your treasure is, there your… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
There are so many sci-fi fans and it's such a big business now. So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.… — Aaron Ashmore Copy Share Image
“By wearing cosmetics a woman seeks to look younger or more beautiful than she otherwise would. Honesty doesn't require that she issue… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The next time you see John Stossel or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, these flat-Earthers, these corporate toadies, lying… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
What’s the gun for? (Leta) I would lie and say it’s for bears or snakes, but mostly I use it for trespassers.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
How will the ships navigate without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were dead, long dead, and the light they… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
In many other cultures, and certainly in the Eastern world, there's great value put on being, contemplating, and even withdrawing from the… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
After much consideration, I am moving onward with a combination of disappointment at leaving behind a character I have loved playing for… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
The thing is, when you put a button in someone's hand and give them the power of yes or no, no is… — Adrian Pasdar Copy Share Image
We all grew up on movies with scenes where the actor is lying, and you know he's lying, but he wants to… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what… — Michael Short Copy Share Image
The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but… — Florence Bascom Copy Share Image
There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts… — Ray Stevens Copy Share Image
“I know, brother, that you are a straightforward man, and that you pride yourself on it. But put one question to yourself:… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
