Lie Quotes
The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was.Norse Proverb, Myth and Meaning page 72
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.George Bernard Shaw
I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.John D. Rockefelle
The Godless would deny and destroy human rights.... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned.U. S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson
Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.Matrix, The
The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.George Jellinek
Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.Author Unknown
Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.Mark Twain
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.William James
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.Lisa Grossman
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.John Gunthe
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.Marie Dressle
Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.Spider - Man
Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
Nothing got him angrier than when people implied he was paranoid. It made him feel persecuted.Robert Sheckley
No man ever quite believes in any other man.Henry Louis Mencken
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.Gaston Bachelard
I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.Coleman Cox
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.Claud Cockburn
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)
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin D. Roosevelt
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god - Fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.Aristotle, unknown
He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.Benjamin Franklin
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, We lie.Simonides, Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone? s shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I? ll live as I believe.Whitney Houston, The Greatest Love Of All
Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.John Cogley Commonweal
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.Oscar Levant
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964
This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 5 scene 7
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables".
Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.Norman Thomas
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.Garrison Keillo
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.Anne Frank
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.William Penn
