At some point along the way, I stopped being a writer, and I became a black writer. I never used to be… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
Diabolical error decks itself out with ease in lying colors with some appearance of truth, so that the force of pronouncement is… — Pope Clement XIII Copy Share Image
Sinners in their natural state lie dead, lifeless, and moveless; they can no more believe in Christ, nor repent, than a dead… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
“I lied," I said. ... "I know it," he said. "Then do something about it. Do anything, just so it's something." "I… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
... the job [at the Manhattan Institute] gives me a platform where I can focus on the themes that I explored in… — Robert Bryce Copy Share Image
Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child will upon the slightest temptation tell an untruth… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm… — Henry Waxman Copy Share Image
Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
HERE LIES BROM Who was A Rider bonded to the dragon Saphira Son of Holcomb and Nelda Beloved of Selena Father of… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
There's something profoundly liberating about giving, yet we don't do it often enough. It begs the question: why not? For some of… — Jen Lilley Copy Share Image
“This desire to govern a woman—it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together… But I do love you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A large part of the art of instruction lies in making the difficulty of new problems large enough to challenge thought, and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Like Muslims we assume that God will judge us "on balance." If our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds, we will arrive… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Somtimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person's home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's hard for anyone, no matter what their age, having a child and trying to make a career, but you survive. My… — Lisa Maffia Copy Share Image
Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hide what I feel simply cause no one rally cares these days so if you ever ask me if I'm okay… — Talyiah Copy Share Image
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects… — Demi Moore Copy Share Image
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
Obsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Lies propagate, that's what I'm saying. You've got to tell more lies to cover them up, lie about every fact that's connected… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Yeah, I lied and I shouldn’t have and it was lousy of me and I’m sorry. I never meant to hurt you,… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
I say you call yourself Goldstein, Silverstein, and Rubinstein because you're stealing all the gold and silver and rubies all over the… — Khalid Abdul Muhammad Copy Share Image
Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture;… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image