Lies Quotes

5942 Lies quotes by 3132 unique authors

Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact… — Octavio Paz
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. — Charles Baudelaire
Gird up your loins for the task that now lies ahead. I had asked you for men, money and materials. I have got them in… — Subhas Chandra Bose
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that… — Abraham Lincoln
The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever… — Adolf Hitler
Being unconquerable lies with yourself; being conquerable lies with your enemy. — Sun Tzu
Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death - the… — Douglas MacArthur
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses... — Harry Emerson Fosdick
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing… — Mark Twain
No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies. — Salvador de Madariaga
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. — Robert Foster Bennett
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work… — Steve Almond
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low. — Unknown Author
The road to perseverance lies by doubt. — Francis Quarles
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. — Alexander Pope
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have. — Garrison Keillor
The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more… — Bernard Law Montgomery
Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which… — Charles de Gaulle
Honor lies in honest toil. — Grover Cleveland
Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.... — Khalil Gibran
We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies further on. — Ezra Hall Gillett
We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That… — Phillips Brooks
My only wish is I die real cause that truth hurts and those lies kill. — Drake
Don't listen to the lies, I swear they all lies. You know I could be your knight in shining Armor All tires. — Drake
...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to… — Jeanette Winterson

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