The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't stop some idiot from crashing into a building or blowing up a bus, I can only be your dad and… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I think people will lie to pollsters. I think the truth of Obama and what people think of Obama is when you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
Because there is liberating power in each and every truth, the one who walks in the truth in all his ways will… — Johan Oscar Smith Copy Share Image
There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either.… — Will Arnett Copy Share Image
But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Without question, the balance of power on the planet today lies in the hands of business. Corporations rival governments in wealth, influence,… — Ben Cohen Copy Share Image
“Tyrion felt the heat rise in him. “It was not my dagger,” he insisted. “How many times must I swear to that?… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I wonder how it turns out that we all lead such different lives. Take you and your sister, for example. You're born… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery, and true, And, though victors, they left on the field not a few; And they… — Thomas Davis Copy Share Image
“Why didn't Jacob simply refuse to go along with this bold, obvious swindle? Again, Robert Alter's insights are invaluable. When Jacob asks,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
In 2003 I was saying, where are the ties [between Iraq] and al-Qaida? Where are the ties to 9/11? I knew it;… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I know why people die of hopelessness. It comes on like a thick blanket, covering your thoughts, your confidence, creeping into your… — Joan Lowery Nixon Copy Share Image
Peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning And lief lie down of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned - the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach -… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Try not to be too angry or disappointed with your fellow Americans. Most of them don't care about politics as much as… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty.… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
How do you react when your own government lies to you systematically about life-and-death questions? As I have noted earlier, the answer… — Harris L Coulter Copy Share Image
Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea,… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There are some of us who think to ourselves, 'If I had only been there! How quick I would have been to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead… — Mary Cholmondeley Copy Share Image
The really important questions in human life are hardly touched upon by psychologists. Do liars come to believe their own lies? Is… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Adorn yourself with truth, try to speak truth in all things; and do not support a lie, no matter who asks you.… — Gennadius of Constantinople Copy Share Image
If a man is to become fully himself - and this is not something that happens automatically just because you arrive at… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
Good evening. A President who lied us into a war and, in so doing, needlessly killed 3,584 of our family and friends… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image