Lies Quotes
5942 quotes by 3132 authors
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Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.
— William Carey
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Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
— Phillips Brooks
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I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the souls of others,…
— Alexander Whyte
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Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That…
— Edith Wharton
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to…
— Nicholas Delbanco
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great…
— Salman Rushdie
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The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
— Thomas A. Edison
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America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. It is a nation of minorities ruled by a minority of…
— Unknown Author
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What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.
— Unknown Author
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Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies…
— John Oliver Killens
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We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.
— John Oliver Killens
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I would like to appeal to all those in whose hands the future of mankind lies, to use their power not to destroy or kill,…
— Poul Hartling
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For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged…
— Ernestine Rose
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I am getting you a coffee machine. Your husband is a horrible person. He lies when he says hello. He cannot keep up with all…
— Unknown Author
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Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.
— Lou Reed
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I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies.
— Brenda Blethyn
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None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The…
— Bernard Baruch
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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think…
— Harry S. Truman
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