The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have mastered many things in my life. Navigating the streets of London, speaking French without an accent, dancing the quadrille, the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I think the lie we've told people in the marketplace is that a degree gets you a job. A degree doesn't get… — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history. — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
Why am I attracted to all these lying quotes all of a sudden? Here’s another one. This one by Phillip Lopate: ‘(Children… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth. — Curt Flood Copy Share Image
Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
People wonder why there seems to be no meaning in life. Meaning does not exist a priori. There is no meaning existing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If you have competence, you know the edge. It wouldnt be a competence if you didnt know where the boundaries lie. Asking… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth -… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
An actor that tells you that they have real choices between material is, for the most part, lying. There are very few… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
That's how they manage to live together, a billion of them, in reasonable peace. They are not perfect, of course. They know… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I have heard the critics. What they are spewing are lies, nothing more. My defense policy calls for an efficient and strong… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
They are evil people, the press, the media, they are bad people, and nobody, nobody lies like they do. I never like… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It's called vetting. Printing the truth about liberals - that's called 'swift-boating'. — Howie Carr Copy Share Image
It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image