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
The best worst example of making people feel unappreciated today lies in the casualness, indeed indifference with regard to massive lay-offs even… — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky And I must think a little of the past: When I was… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
This is what Wisdom means: To be changed without the slightest effort on your part, to be transformed, believe it or not,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
By death the moon was gathered in Long ago, ah long ago; Yet still the silver corpse must spin And with another's… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing… — Scott Dikkers Copy Share Image
I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love… — Arca Copy Share Image
Sociopaths are not usually physically violent. A typical sociopath never kills anybody and doesn't look like Charles Manson - they look like… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful, ... I think Rupert is really adept… — Benjamin Bratt Copy Share Image
Christendom never came from an unbroken grave. It would have been buried in that grave, as Judas thought it was going to… — Richard Salter Storrs Copy Share Image
That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
The great thing about having been poor is how liberated it makes you if you eventually become rich. There's nothing like the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here.… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves. — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
“And once when we were walking on Bredon Hill, we met a bedraggled and exhausted fox. 'Oh, poor thing,' Jack said. 'What… — George Sayer Copy Share Image
“It happens to all of us," I concluded that Easter Sunday morning. "God simply keeps reaching down into the dirt of humanity… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
I found the success of 'In a Dark, Dark Wood' really distracting when I was writing 'The Woman in Cabin 10,' but… — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We should not underestimate the enormity of the task which lies ahead. But little can be achieved without sound money. It is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie. You must experience the truth, not believe it. — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The truth is that perhaps everything has a price, but certainly everyone has to pay more price only for their lies. — Anuj Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
People must have freedom and at the same time they must have security. They must not be using freedom to fight with… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
