We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
Jew and Gentile are two worlds, between you Gentiles and us Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf...There are two life forces in… — Maurice Samuel Copy Share Image
Friend, my enemy, I call you out. You, you, you there with a bad thorn in your side. You there, my friend,… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Where are you going?" "You didn't..." "No, I didn't, but I'm in heaven deep in you. I want to stay like this.… — Elle Aycart Copy Share Image
Forgiving someone does not mean you condone their behavior. The act of forgiveness takes place in your own mind. It really has… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
One of the powerful functions of a library-any library-lies in its ability to take us away from worlds that are familiar and… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
There's a lie that all drivers tell themselves. Death is something that happens to other people, and that's how you find the… — James Hunt Copy Share Image
There is this unbounded, infinite, eternal, level, ocean, within every human being. Inner happiness comes with consciousness, bliss, intelligence comes with it.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
There’s only one question that matters, Ms. Lane, and it’s the one you never get around to asking. People are capable of… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Look Here are we On this starry night staring into space And I must say I feel as small as dust Lying… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might scar or… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“So I'd stabbed needles into my eyes and pretended not to see certain things. Bad things. Only by turning my back on… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Trump is an intemperate, mean-spirited, lying bully. If a man like that asked you for permission to marry your daughter, what would… — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I see lies everywhere - switch on the television, it's lies. Everything is lies. In the art world or science community, we… — Paola Pivi Copy Share Image
It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to… — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
“So you just kill people for power." "As do you." "How dare you-" He laughs, loud. "You're free to lie to yourself,… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Part of the pleasure of editing 'Vogue,' one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine, is being able to feature… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street.… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan was an actor. Not at all a factor, Just an employee of the country's real masters. Just like the Bushes,… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image