Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
If you see someone lying out knives and forks consistently, but then one day those knives and forks become weapons you're not… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion:… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ? — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we… — David Hume Copy Share Image
When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer... his unique opportunity lies in the way he bears his burden. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Chances are that any helpful two-year-old will break some eggs. We are often not very good at things when we are new.… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
And it's obvious that you're dying, dying Just living proof that the camera's lying — Patience Copy Share Image
I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal… — Peter London Copy Share Image
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I've been through hell. It's hard to think you have this life, and then all of a sudden - was it a… — Elin Nordegren Copy Share Image
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth nor do they meditate on it. Who can define… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
