A little flattery, like a warm bath and soft towel, will let you get along with yourself, lie down with yourself, and… — Willis Regier 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
When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying,… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. Such imperfections are your guides - valuable,… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us,… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Young men just don't know what it means to be a man. There are so many lies about what it means to… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and… — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
She wanted to have him hold her and tell her all the demons were pretend, that there was no monster in her… — Jackie Morse Kessler Copy Share Image
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
Will we listen to Satan, the author of all lies … ? Or are we going to believe a loving Heavenly Father,… — Richard C. Edgley Copy Share Image
It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough… — Henry Crew Copy Share Image
The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano! — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I do believe that is a template that I stick very strongly to to tell the truth in an increasing swelter of… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds,… — Howard Mumford Jones Copy Share Image
Please explain to me why John Kerry sounds more dickish telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying. How is that… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies… — Wang Yangming Copy Share Image
Do not say that! How few are the Romans and how numerous are we ! 'An army's strength lies not in numbers… — Khalid ibn al-Walid Copy Share Image
You might say that my work is just simply lying on the ground, and I go and I gather it, and I… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
The subject of drama is The Lie. At the end of the drama THE TRUTH -- which has been overlooked, disregarded, scorned,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Sunshine of late afternoon-- On the glass tray a glass pitcher, the tumbler turned down, by which a key is lying--And the… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
She lies about her age and weight and is slightly older than Rocket. But they've been a couple for eight years, longer… — Kate Jackson Copy Share Image
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to… — Brendan Coyle Copy Share Image
Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
I'd be lying to say I've not experienced a lot of racism in my life; it's very much alive. I don't let… — Darius Rucker Copy Share Image
No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view,"… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin,… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Someone once said, "I don't lie because then I don't have to remember anything." I've told white lies a lot. Sometimes when… — Larry King Copy Share Image
The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
