Lie Quotes

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

Oscar Levant

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.

William Shakespeare

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

Russell Bake

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Mohandas Ghandi

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

E. B. White

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

George Frost Kennan

No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?

Carl L. Becke

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull Sta

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)

What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Henry David Thoreau

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

If you are near the enemy, make him believe you are far from him. If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

Sun - Tzu

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Sir Francis Bacon

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Charles Lindbergh

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Denis Diderot

Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, We lie.

Simonides, Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

John Ruskin

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

William Henry Harrison, Speech, October 1, 1840

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

Henri de Lubac

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

George William Curtis

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

Margot Asquith

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

E. e. cummings

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

Havelock Ellis

We have to believe in free will. Weve got no choice.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.

Unknown

As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in.

Edward Bedore

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

You have to believe that the universe will provide.

Steve Crosby

Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.

Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine

Comedy is allied to justice.

Aristophenes

You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on.

Charles Manson