Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse. — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the… — John Green Copy Share Image
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy:… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
“Dating is basically this weird thing where you go out and pretend to be someone you're not until the other person likes… — Kevin Molesworth Copy Share Image
I used to be ashamed by the way that I grew up. I tried to lie my way through better times, but… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers to it. Lovers, according… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
That's right. Obama didn't lie to you when he said, 'if you like your plan, you can keep it.' Why? Because, you… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness. — Democritus Copy Share Image
The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear. — Malorie Blackman Copy Share Image
The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us… — David Swing Copy Share Image
“The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it. — William James Copy Share Image
The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. — Raymond Radiguet Copy Share Image
People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones. — Jennifer Lee Carrell Copy Share Image
Any league that talks about that - they care about their players - is lying. — Diana Taurasi Copy Share Image
Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery. — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying. — Matei Calinescu Copy Share Image
The answer lies in preventing failures not in looking for better ways to fix the children who are failing. — William Glasser Copy Share Image
