A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“I may have people lying to me, but since I don't really know the truth, I can't be sure.” — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I was lying ten and had a thirty-five foot putt. I whispered over my shoulder: "How does this one break?" And my… — Jack Lemmon Copy Share Image
“The entire gamut of scandal, hate, and lying is prepared for a poor man in this world who dares to work for… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin. — Jessica Hahn Copy Share Image
Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] has really started his political activity based on this racist lie that our first black president was not an American… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
There's an expression, "God is in the details," and it applies to nothing more than it does to the writing of fiction.… — Donna Levin Copy Share Image
They say it's not the snoring itself but those anxiety-packed moments in between snorts. It's the waiting for the nasal passages of… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
So, in addition to being a full-time father of two and everything else in life, it isn't so much that I'm sitting… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse. — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out. Niether side is glorious.… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies lying next… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves? — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
What I told them: I didn't cut last night. What I didn't say: I need a sharper blade. — Leslie Copy Share Image
We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let us make war on the phrase 'violence doesn't solve anything.' It is a lie, and anyone who utters it cannot be… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
[At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the… — Cleopatra Copy Share Image
No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him. — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world.… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
When you lie down on your bed to sleep, remember with thanksgiving the blessings and the providence of God. — Anthony the Great Copy Share Image
It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image