They Lie Quotes
82 quotes by 77 authors
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian…
— Bertrand Russell
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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still…
— David Hume
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The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of vast…
— John Burroughs
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I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!
— Tupac Shakur
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Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
— Robert Higgs
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The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a…
— Henry David Thoreau
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However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a…
— Martin Luther
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The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all,…
— John Burroughs
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There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.
— May Sarton
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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the…
— Samuel Johnson
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All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more.
— Frank Sinatra
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A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie…
— Lauryn Hill
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The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it,…
— Sterling Hayden
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The roots of our ecological crises are axiomatic: they lie in our belief and value structures which shape our relationship with nature, with each other…
— Ziauddin Sardar
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Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence,…
— Joseph Addison
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But here's the thing about being honest: All the liars HATE you for it, and most of the people in the world are liars. They…
— Tucker Max
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I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at…
— Joyce Stranger
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Leave other people's mistakes where they lie.
— Marcus Aurelius
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