How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Yeah, and there’s this constant refrain from privileged people; it’s like they’re all racing to prove how miserable they used to be.… — K. Archura Copy Share Image
A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
The capacity for "uncontaminated wonder," ultimately, is what distinguishes the successful from the ordinary, the happily engaged players of whatever era from… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still… — AnnaLynne McCord Copy Share Image
What does the enemy have to gain by convincing you to never deal with your past because your mind will never make… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
My father had put these things on the table. I looked at him standing by the sink. He was washing his hands,… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
If you're an actor, there's going to be a sense of fantasy about yourself, especially in the celebrity world we live in… — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Her seductive power, however, did not lie in her looks [...]. In reality, Cleopatra was physically unexceptional and had no political power,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who’d botched things so badly. They’d sold their children a… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we’re a… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Whenever a gentle pressure is used to make a slight change in leg posture, the neck muscles react immediately. Conversely, when the… — Nikolaas Tinbergen Copy Share Image
Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
You tell them what a happy ending consists of, which is always individual success. You tell them that nothing irrational exists in… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
The child who defines a lie as being a "naughty word" knows perfectly well that lying consists in not speaking the truth.… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Death is an inevitable cycle. But sickness before death is a symptom of resistance. Most people think they've got to get sick… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The parents, the society, the state, the church, the educational system, they all depend on lies. As the child is born they… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many,… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
“Tell me it's not true." He sighed. "Fine. It's not true." ... And yet... "Are you lying?" He rolled his eyes. "Of… — Kathleen Peacock Copy Share Image
That is why every brother and sister will react differently according to how they learn to defend themselves and adapt to different… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art… — John Walford Copy Share Image
[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The claims [about my inappropriate conduct with women] are preposterous, ludicrous, and defy truth, common sense and logic. We already have substantial… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Lying is not a sin, since there has never been a law-maker or philosopher who could determine what truth is. I lie… — Iwan Goll Copy Share Image
“See, most people you meet, they'll talk to you through fifty layers of gauze and tinting. Sometimes you know they're lying even… — Craig Silvey Copy Share Image
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do...… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image