Lie Quotes

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewrite.

Woody Allen

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

Kahlil Gibran

Men as well as animals do whatever makes them happy, differences lie in what makes them happy.

B. J. Gupta

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.

James Harvey Robinson

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

George Du Maurie

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh

The chief proof of mans greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Victor Hugo

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past...

Mikhail Gorbachev, (1988)

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Michel de Montaigne

Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life.

Meryl Streep

But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

William Shakespeare

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

Ambrose of Milan

To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.

Unknown

I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.

George W. Bush, Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004

He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

Benjamin Franklin

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.

Unknown

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?

Carl Sagan

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Stephen Roberts

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Eric Hoffe

Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.

C. A. Bartol

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

Adam Clayton Jr. Powell

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.

Epictetus

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Marie Curie

Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world.

Euripides

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 3 scene 4

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Okakura Kakuzo

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - - There, if one must speak out, the real man.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?

Chris Martin, Rolling Stone Magazine

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Alice Walke

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

William Westmoreland

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.