...lying spread-eagled in the hall with only my ankle inside the room that kept me prisoner here. They really should have thought… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
'The Decay Of Lying' is a very interesting treatise. It was actually penned as a dialogue between two characters, Cyril and Vyvyan,… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think the Obama Administration has done a lousy job marketing and selling and explaining this entire thing. And, as a result,… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane. — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book,… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article. — James Blunt Copy Share Image
You can call me a fat, balding, talentless old queen who can't sing, but you can't tell lies about me. — Elton John Copy Share Image
Sometimes you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about...That always worries me! — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of "an abundance or surplus" arose from its being kept… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Integrity is at the heart of commerce in the world in which we live. Honesty and integrity comprise the very underpinnings of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
(The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to put any… — Samuel Clarke Copy Share Image
Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, books… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
People think that if everyone knows the power of the LOA there won't be enough to go around .. This is a… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
I used to lie here like this all summer long,' I tell her. 'I'd come up here and just stare at the… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Am I emotional? Yes, my first born was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen… — John Owen Copy Share Image
A woman who repeatedly asks a man she knows to be gay when he's going to get married and have children is… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image