By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions,… — Vicente del Bosque Copy Share Image
My idea of the perfect exercise class is this: The teacher gives us all a hug and goes, 'You did it! You… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
As one needs happiness so have I needed love; that is the deepest need of the human spirit. And as I love… — Rockwell Kent Copy Share Image
The dream world of sleep and the dream world of music are not far apart. I often catch glimpses of one as… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Thus far, both political parties have been remarkably clever and effective in concealing this new reality. In fact, the two parties have… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Honesty is a gift we can give others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity,” Dr. Sam… — Joshua Fields Millburn Copy Share Image
After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I liked Bugs Bunny. He was pretty good. He's annoying as a duck and he's anti-proletarian. Daffy Duck I couldn't see what… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“Lying is wrong. When you tell a lie for the sake of sparing someone's feelings it is not suddenly right, but it… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
After one moment of gripped immobility, the queen bent to kiss the king lightly on one closed eyelid, then on the other.… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Fearful leaders side-step issues instead of dealing with them, cover up mistakes instead of owning up to mistakes; they skulk back into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
One should not as a rule reveal one's secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again.… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
But a day must come when the fire of youth will be quenched in my veins, when winter will dwell in my… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you're slamming your… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Let the church come to God in the strength of a perfect weakness, in the power of a felt helplessness and a… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
This kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise that’s at the very heart of America: that this is a place… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Oh the Broom, the yellow Broom, The ancient poet sung it, And dear it is on summer days To lie at rest… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
“I had told her I was falling in love with her, a few moments before my body claimed hers for the first… — Christine Zolendz Copy Share Image
For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every time we are faced with a choice, and we are faced with them every minute of every day, we make a… — Mark Hodder Copy Share Image
So now you can let go, my darling...Let go...Let go of this poor old body. You don't need it anymore. Let it… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The vigorous branching of life's tree, and not the accumulating valor of mythical marches to progress, lies behind the persistence and expansion… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
