In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
You’re walking down life’s road, society’s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can’t get from under that… — Odetta Copy Share Image
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
“There is a pivotal point in every interaction between humans which sets the course in their relationship. Do you hide or do… — Ava Ayers Copy Share Image
Lying about having work done is such a put-down to women. It says to the average woman: 'I'm beautifully naturally and you're… — Joan Rivers 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
In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That… — Max Greenfield Copy Share Image
Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal. I have a rosy sky and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action and turning the living into silent… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it and to choose to… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
In the morning I'm like a snake in the spring: I need to lie out on a warm rock and let the… — Katherine Hannigan Copy Share Image
“Mma Ramotswe did not like lying, but sometimes it was necessary, particularly when faced with people who were promoted beyond their talents.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Anybody in animation today would be lying if they said they weren't somehow influenced by 'The Simpsons' to a certain degree. Except… — Justin Roiland Copy Share Image
Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’. — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with… — Edward Betts Copy Share Image
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with. — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
-"You won't like me if I'm cruel." -"I don't like you now." -"We don't lie." -"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
The Big Lie is a major untruth uttered frequently by leaders as a means of duping and controlling the constituency. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the… — Alexander Whyte Copy Share Image
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I wanted to be bad because the good guys were lying, cheating and swearing. Let me be bad by being good and… — Bob Backlund Copy Share Image
The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience… — Carl Hilty Copy Share Image
I definitely used to lie about my age. I'm from Tennessee and everyone would vacation in Destin, Florida, where there are lots… — Lucy Hale Copy Share Image
