Lie Quotes

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

Anwar el - Sadat

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Saint Augustine, De Libero Arbitrio

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Hermann Hesse

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Alexander Pope

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

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Dominique de Menil

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Noah Porte

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Louis D. Brandeis

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - - And the soul of a people.

Bertrand Russell

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.

S. J. Perelman

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

Fidel Castro, Playboy Interview - January 1967

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.... Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Abigail Adams, letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784

The people of the States now confederated..... believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves.

Jefferson Davis

Oh, replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, he told me to come and see you.

Author Unknown

Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

Heinrich Heine

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939

Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.

Jerry Coleman

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Kahlil Gibran

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

Erich Fromm

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

Margot Asquith

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann von Goethe

Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Thomas Carlyle

I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.

Fran Lebowitz

Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.

Martin Luthe

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Lyman Beeche

No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

Jean - Paul Sartre

I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.

George Eliot

Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.

Oliver Herford

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion (1927)

Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences.

Signs

He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.

Hunter S. Thompson