Lie Quotes

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

John Buchan

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God? s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.

George Washington Carve

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nelson Mandela

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love".

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Anne Frank, The diary of Anne Frank

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.

Stephen Jay Gould

Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

Fulton J. Sheen

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

Adam Smith

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.

George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004

Mankind is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

Liberace

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Paddy Chayefsky

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

George Santayana

The true skeptic will never believe you no matter how much proof you offer him. The true believer does not need it.

Peter James, Ghosts of the Queen Mary

Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.

Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

People will believe anything. They will believe it because they want it to be true, or because they are afraid it is.

Terry Goodkind

Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Thomas Huxley

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

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

Dick Gregory

I believe the destiny of your generation - And your nation - Is a rendezvous with excellence.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.

John Owen

Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit - - Enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

Eric Anderson

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Besseme

Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.

Macduff

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillo

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970