People do lie to themselves, and they get away with it because every action affirms and reaffirms their perception. That's the power… — Vicki Pettersson Copy Share Image
Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of… — Homer Copy Share Image
We incline to think that God cannot explain His own secrets and that He would like a little information upon certain points… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In India nearly everybody spoke metaphorically except the English who spoke bluntly and could make their most transparent lies look honest as… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Is not the gospel its own sign and wonder? Is not this a miracle of miracles, that 'God so loved the world… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The world has lost a visionary leader, a courageous voice for justice, and a clear moral compass. By showing us that the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its… — Lady Hester Stanhope Copy Share Image
No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence. ... Good scientists study the… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Raise your hand if you’ve spent nights crying yourself to sleep, raise your hand if you’ve felt as if you’d rather hide… — Dianna Agron Copy Share Image
...Denmark should be a green and sustainable society with a visionary climate and energy policy...The answer to these challenges lies in the… — Connie Hedegaard 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
I write in the mornings. I get up every morning at about six in the morning and write until nine, hop in… — John Searles Copy Share Image
How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
I see characters lying all the time in a lot of Hollywood movies. They can't do this because it would affect the… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
In the offseason, why can't it be a little lighter? It's not life or death. I try to have a little fun,… — Steve Spurrier Copy Share Image
... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me… — Christer Kihlman Copy Share Image
To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
When envy lies within a woman's heart it cuts into her soul & gives her a toxic spirit. It is truly something… — Bindu Envy In Women Copy Share Image
The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Let this one great, gracious, glorious fact lie in your spirit until it permeates all your thoughts and makes you rejoice even… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
His left eyebrow crept higher and higher as I told him the strange bits like the glowing letters and serpent staff. "Well,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Where the subject lies so far beyond our reach, the difference between the highest and the lowest of human understandings may indeed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really cute song - I love it.… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Star Trek?” I asked her. “Really?” “What?” she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. “There are two kinds of people in the… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors… — Ross McKitrick Copy Share Image
The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges'… — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It would much conduce to the settlement of your heart, to consider that by fretting and discontent you do yourself more injury… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
