Last I checked, Bill Gates was worth $50 billion. If the average employed adult, who is walking in a hurry, will pick… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
There are two styles of walls "opus reticulatum," now used by everybody and the ancient style called "opus incertum." Of these, the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
I have always felt that the moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four… — Monica Baldwin Copy Share Image
I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was… — Wes Borland Copy Share Image
We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating,… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Your writing is still yours, no matter what the contract or your editor might say. Trust your gut. It knows when you're… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
“It is perfectly possible to live a life from cradle to grave that is entirely dishonest.One might never reveal one's true identity,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The courage we need is not the fortitude to be obedient in the service of an unjust war, to help conceal lies,… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The lie came out so easily it frightened me. I used to feel sick to my stomach when I heard Mother tell… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more the lying, the losing touch with your true thoughts and feelings, and the compromises required to… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
“The one undeniable benefit of having spent some time in the closet is that it nurtures a talent that you can fall… — Bob Smith Copy Share Image
Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
In El-harím, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes. To me, he said, "Beware the whispers, for they whisper lies.… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I appreciate both men and women. I love the female body and truly appreciate the female form. I really enjoy sketching women,… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
With your face and your beautiful eyes and the coversations with the little white lies and the faded picture of a beautiful… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Fear is just part of our DNA and our make-up. By definition, if we've had to be looked after for two years,… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
Nothing is drearier than just always telling the truth about yourself. Rousseau, who as far as I can tell was a pathological… — Lawrence Douglas Copy Share Image
For the first time, I notice the lax skin at Mrs. Nightwing's jaw, the fine down that lies upon her cheek like… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
…I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character.… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
It looks like bribery. I mean,there is every appearance that Hillary Clinton was bribed to grease the sale of, what, 20 percent… — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
The fact that only humans above a certain age can be morally virtuous, rather than babies or cats, means that that being… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
Black women must help black men understand their full potential lies not in denying black women full access to their humanity and… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's hard because I don't like to hurt people's feelings. So there have been times when a friend will get a… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality...plead the promise in a truthful, business-like… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Those wedgie seats, whatever they call them, those recliners, they're just not competitive anymore. The difference between those and a coach seat… — David Neeleman Copy Share Image
“We are not a couple,' she said softly. 'Therefore I cannot cuckold you.' 'Shall I pull out the note and point to… — Suzanne Enoch Copy Share Image
That is what they call being reconciled to die. They call it reconciled when pain has strummed a symphony of suffering back… — Marita Bonner Copy Share Image
The fact that our legal system has become so tolerant of police lying indicates how corrupted our criminal justice system has become… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
