When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I've always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies. — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art. — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
She turned to look at Sebastian, lying on the bed. He was shirtless, and even in the dim light the old whip… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
That's the thing about marriage. It's a shell game we play with ourselves. We're the suckers and we have to lose, but… — R. K. Milholland Copy Share Image
The spider dances her web without knowing there are flies that will get caught in it. The fly, dancing nonchalantly on a… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage. — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
You face adversity all the time. I accept what lies ahead and then I do my best. You can't take things too… — Kristine Lilly Copy Share Image
The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
That little word 'we' I mistrust and here's why: No man of another can say, 'He is I.' Behind all agreement lies… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
"Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two-thirds of… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone… — Jodi Picoult 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
Men tend to lie when it comes to sexual conquests. You should hear some of the ego-driven lies my friends have told… — Adam Ferrara Copy Share Image
He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being,… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity. My name is… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all… — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Whenever I can’t sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I’ve been assassinated. I’ve found this is the best… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat the customers honestly; don't… — James Sinegal Copy Share Image