Lie Quotes

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. On steel industry executives who increased prices.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Camille Paglia

To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, ... to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.

Ernest Hemingway

A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...

CIA Manual

No one can give you authority. But if you act like you have it, others will believe you do.

Karin Ireland

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

Isaac Bashevis Singe

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.

Agnes De Mille

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him.

William Shakespeare

A man is accepted into church for what he believes - - And turned out for what he knows.

Mark Twain

When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.

Hietzsche

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - - But we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Persian Prove

There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.

Edmund Burke

I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me.

Terence

Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.

Thomas a Kempis

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Thomas Carlyle

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.

Albert Einstein

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

Author Unknown

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

Lou Dorfsman

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Richard Adams

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

G. K. Chesterton

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the division of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

Havelock Ellis

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, Where have I gone wrong? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.

Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts".

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

Karl Kraus

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

John Maynard Keynes

It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.

Alexander Pope

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

C. C. Colton

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Rmy de Gourmont

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Joseph Brodsky