Lies Quotes
5942 Lies quotes by 3132 unique authors
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Every particle of the world is a mirror. In each atom blazes forth the light of a thousand suns. Open the heart of a raindrop…
— Mahmud Shabistari
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Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.
— Harry Frankfurt
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The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all.…
— Harry Frankfurt
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Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new delineations drawn over the…
— Susan Griffin
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The kiss is a wordless articulation of desire whose object lies in the future, and somewhat to the south.
— Lance Morrow
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Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.
— Roger von Oech
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Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.
— Sebastian Horsley
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When in our minds we pre-live our marriage, we help to determine the kind of person that we would like to be when that event…
— Sterling W Sill
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Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills.
— Soichiro Honda
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A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never be anything but…
— Walter Martin
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If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of…
— Johan Huizinga
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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I think dressing up or down should be a creative experience. Exciting. Fun. For me the key to personal style lies in accessories. I love…
— Iris Apfel
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Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do…
— Dee Hock
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It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake…
— Isak Dinesen
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Success in spiritual life lies not in being the Best, but doing the Best.
— Radhanath Swami
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I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally…
— Lord Chesterfield
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In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let…
— LouAnne Johnson
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand. The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be…
— Ajahn Chah
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The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no…
— Ajahn Sumedho
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Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in…
— Maurice Nicoll
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The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed;…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can change them. We…
— Diane Chamberlain
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The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester
— Anne Perry
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