We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
At least she had a clear picture of what the Lying Game was now: Girl Scouts for psychopaths. — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
Only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to… — Confucius Copy Share Image
For me, it's a way to find a fiction within a fiction. To find a way to uncover that blunder within the… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
You can sing if you have a great voice, but to connect that instrument to the text and connect it to the… — Marc E. Platt Copy Share Image
It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful… — James Agee Copy Share Image
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see,… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult… — James Forrestal Copy Share Image
The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Hope? Hope is not the absence of tragedy, my friend. It is the conviction that tragedy can be endured. Hope is the… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
Most of the people...they say gays are born that way and it has been...proven...That is a lie. That's what's called a lie.… — Scott Lively Copy Share Image
AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute… — Ambrose Bierce 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
What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You lie once.. you lie for the rest of your life... and in quest of proving your innocence.. you pledge your honesty… — Abhijeet Sawant Copy Share Image
The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I had to break up with my last girlfriend for lying about being raped by her neighbor. But I've met her neighbor,… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Oh how sweet to work for God all day, and then lie down at night beneath His smile. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The black-haired Jewish youth lies in wait for hours on end, satanically glaring at and spying on the unsuspicious girl whom he… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Our purity lies in our originality. Our intuition lies in our innocence. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
In most of my photographic pieces I have manipulated the quality of the evidence that people assign to photography, in order to… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
